Can you tell a Black Southerner apart from a White one just by listening? (fit in, population)

[creeksitter]

Even in Appalachian Knoxville you can distinguish a Black accent most of the time. there are exceptions, of course, but usually those speakers have a neutral accent.

Very rarely you encounter a white person with a black accent, the time I remember this most vividly was an older man from tidewater Virginia I had first spoken to on the phone. I've heard some young white kids with black accents and assumed they lived in a blended family.

I did see, on TV, a black woman running an Appalachian charity who had a very strong Appalachian accent, but that is rare. I know a black man who grew up in the country outside Kingsport TN (very white area) and you can still sense a black accent.

[EddieOlSkool]

Didn't most Pittsburgh Blacks move there from the South, though? They don't have the traditional caught-cot merger, down=dahn Pittsburgh accent

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by EddieOlSkool

Didn't most Pittsburgh Blacks move there from the South, though? They don't have the traditional caught-cot merger, down=dahn Pittsburgh accent

A majority of the the Black population still lives in the South.

[EddieOlSkool]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

A majority of the the Black population still lives in the South.

I know that but I was referring specifically to Pittsburgh Blacks. Can we really count them as Appalachian if their roots aren't in Pittsburgh?

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by EddieOlSkool

I know that but I was referring specifically to Pittsburgh Blacks. Can we really count them as Appalachian if their roots aren't in Pittsburgh?

If you're born and raised in Pittsburgh, you're a Pittsburgh native.

[NoClueWho]

Such an ignorant post. Almost sounds like a study in eugenics

[EddieOlSkool]

Originally Posted by Mentallect

Such an ignorant post. Almost sounds like a study in eugenics

Triggered

[new2colo]

Originally Posted by EddieOlSkool

What prominent African American communities are in Appalachian? Where?

Can ATL be considered a related Appalachian dialect? It is after all near the Piedmont.

Several counties in southern West Virginia have relatively significant AA populations.

[EddieOlSkool]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

If you're born and raised in Pittsburgh, you're a Pittsburgh native.

Yes but their LINGUISTIC origins are Southern, are they not?

[Pincho-toot]

Yes but I've heard Texans, black and mestizo, who have a southern drawl indistinguishable from white people, but for the most part, its distinct.