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I’m not sure what’s closest, but I would reckon Californian is about the furthest accent away from an England-English accent. Many Californians pronounce just about all of the syllables the same length (think John Wayne), which sounds very unEnglish (even compared to other American English accents). Saturday Night Live’s “Californians” skits get this part of the accent down pat.
I'll say the East Coast coastal cities all have traits of the English Posh accent since East Coast cities have a tendency to drop the R at the end of a word with Philadelphia being the exception. There's was an accent called the transalantic accent that stretched from Boston to Charleston during the colonial times. I'll say coastal Maine is probably the closest to a British accent since it's so isolated from the rest of the East Coast and that it's the Whitest state in the union.
Well, according to Wikipedia, Eastern New England has one of the closer dialects to British English.
I grew up in Maine and went to school (in French) at Université Laval in Quebec City. I was friends with this Anglophone girl from Ontario who also studied at that university. She told me my accent (Downeast Mainer) sounded akin to the way people speak in some region of England, but I forget which region it is.
I am a native of Atlanta (well born there) and raised in the south side Atlanta adjacent communities of Forest Park/ Lake City/ Morrow in Clayton County. While I was in college at Georgia State University, which is in Downtown Atlanta, I worked further uptown at what was then Rich's Department Store's flagship store at Lenox Square. To get to work, I usually road the MARTA train uptown, often with conventioneers or other visitors from the airport and enjoyed great conversations with them. Now, I am a Georgia boy from a working class neighborhood who certainly does not know HOW to change his accent, but the question I was often asked from these out-of-towners was if I was from England due to what they perceived as a British accent! Well, stranger things HAVE happened. LOL
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