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Why does this 5-YO thread keep getting resurrected? It wasn't even well-phrased, and the accent varies tremendously from location to location (of course).
Why does this 5-YO thread keep getting resurrected? It wasn't even well-phrased, and the accent varies tremendously from location to location (of course).
You can credit new poster "williams 5326" who resurrected several old threads relating to "southern-ness" of NC.
I live in the Appalachian part of North Carolina, and I am fascinated with the North Carolina dialects. North Carolina is the most linguistically diverse US state! On top of that, North Carolina is home to a dialect found nowhere else in the world: the English spoken by those in the Pamlico Sound region, the coastal area that includes the Outer Banks.
Charlotte & Raleigh are very southern and have obviously noticeable accents and the culture is pretty southern. There are transplants, but they have kids and they generally adopt a southern accent. And sometimes even northerners start to have their accent adjust a little. There also is a lot more BBQ and southern foods.
I also want to point out.... “Southern” is not a a synonym for redneck or ignorance. Southern cities can be educated, cosmopolitan, have watered down southern accents, be diverse and still be 100% southern. NC - and it’s two larger cities that do have lots of transplants, are very southern.
Interesting. When you get in the cities, the southern NC drawl accent drops off. I notice that in the Triad. In Greensboro the southern accent is hardly noticeable and the younger generation has no southern accent at all. But once you drive a little ways into Trinity or Thomasville, the accent is strong.
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