Does the Southern accent exist natively in MD? (Baltimore, Frederick: camps, living)

[GunsMass]

I was down in Prince Frederick the other day, which is new to me, and a couple different people around me had distinct Southern accents. One worked there. Were these people migrant Virginians or does this accent start to crop up in Calvert County/elsewhere?

[North Beach Person]

It still remains in Southern Maryland as well as parts of southern Prince George's, parts of Anne Arundel and, of course, the Eastern Shore, especially the Lower Shore.

[G1..]

Wait till you get to the 7th district of St. Mary's County .They have a dialect all their own down there .

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by G1..

Wait till you get to the 7th district of St. Mary's County .They have a dialect all their own down there .

As does the Lower Shore.

[personone]

Yes. Maryland is a historic Southern State and is still officially a Southern State per the Census. Outside of the heavily suburbanized areas of the Baltimore-Washington corridor, you are likely to find some variant of the Southern Accent. The Southern accent is pretty common in MD outside of the suburbs. I grew up in Howard County and in the more rural Western Howard County the Southern Accent was very prevalent.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by personone

Yes. Maryland is a historic Southern State and is still officially a Southern State per the Census. Outside of the heavily suburbanized areas of the Baltimore-Washington corridor, you are likely to find some variant of the Southern Accent. The Southern accent is pretty common in MD outside of the suburbs. I grew up in Howard County and in the more rural Western Howard County the Southern Accent was very prevalent.

Do you have any idea how many people are going to get the vapors when they read this?

[Bert_from_back_East]

IMO, the better question to ask is: Does any anti-Yankee sentiment exist in the areas of Maryland where Southern accents still prevail?

[slowlane3]

"Sons of Confederate Veterans" has 12 "camps" (local chapters) around Maryland, They're listed and mapped here https://mdscv.org/camps

[GunsMass]

Interesting. I'd never heard a trace of it until the other day in Prince F., despite living some time on the Eastern Shore and a few months now in lower Anne Arundel.

I have heard a lifetime of the "lower Mid-Atlantic" accent, aside from the Baltimore metro (and some ways into Carroll County), Delaware, South Jersey, and Philadelphia, and I had assumed that it just stretched across MD. I would have thought it unlikely that DE shares this accent and that the Eastern Shore, at least the major part of it, does not. But I haven't spent much time south of Wicomico & Worchester counties.

[G1..]

Originally Posted by GunsMass

I have heard a lifetime of the "lower Mid-Atlantic" accent, aside from the Baltimore metro (and some ways into Carroll County), Delaware, South Jersey, and Philadelphia,

That's a new one !