Do you consider Ohio "Midwest" or "Back East?" (Cleveland: authority, architectural)

[Cincy-Rise]

^^^ Architecturally speaking, Cincy & STL (and parts of Chi-town) resemble the east more than any other city due to the use of brick, building brownstones, rowhouses and flats. Hell, even Jersey City shares the "brick city" nickname. This of course is due to the age of the cities. Cincy was founded in 1788.

[Samir_Abdul]

ya'll ever heard some one from youngstowns accent..they have a sound of their own....

[CortlandGirl79]

Not everyone in Youngstown has an accent.........the ones that do sound like they are from Appalachia or western Pa.

[1watertiger]

speaking of accents... the reason the residents in the extreme northern part of ohio talk like we do is because settlers traveled the "new england trail". (buffulo,cleveland,toledo,detroit,chicago,etc). the rest of ohio talks with a drawl or southern accent because the settlers took the "appalachia trail". (pittsburgh,columbus,cinci,indianapolis,etc).

[Cincy-Rise]

None of the 4 cities listed above have a southern accent.

This is a southern accent. I used to live in Mississippi:

YouTube - Winston County MS News 010108

lol

[MaryBeth2]

I was born and raised in Ohio, and lived the past 20 years here, in the south. When I talk to back homers, they say I have a southern accent, but down here, I get told I have the New York accent. It always amazes me. I wasn't from NY, I lived in Wintersville. Yay Wintersville!

[Cincy-Rise]

Originally Posted by MaryBeth2

I was born and raised in Ohio, and lived the past 20 years here, in the south. When I talk to back homers, they say I have a southern accent, but down here, I get told I have the New York accent. It always amazes me. I wasn't from NY, I lived in Wintersville. Yay Wintersville!

Yep! I went through the same thing. I was called a Yankee & girls would ask me to say certain things.

[MaryBeth2]

Sometimes when they call us Yankees they aren't smiling!

[VideoEngineerAJS]

I must not have an accent because when I was in Syracuse my parents came up for parents weekend and the waitress at the restaurant we ate at said that my step-mom and my dad had a southern accent, but that I didn't.

Now I could see my dad possibly sounding southern to her since he was from Ironton, but my step-mom is from Michigan and she grew up in Grove City, Ohio.

I was born in Columbus and raised in Marysville with my mom however, so maybe that's why I don't have an accent. However if you want to talk about an accent that is hard to miss, it's the Northeastern (ME, VT, NH, MA, CT, RI) accent (aka the Bostonian accent). Now CT and VT are a little strange because they are pretty much split, some have the Boston accent but others have the NYC accent and in VT some have the Canadian accent.

Again, nobody in their right mind can really say that Northeastern Ohio is anything close to New England or the Northeast in regards to culture or accents. Like I said, I was immersed in the Northeast (New England and New York) for about 4 years and nothing in Ohio comes even close to resembling anything up there (again that's not really a bad or a good thing it's just the way it is).

[Cincy-Rise]

^ Yeah, I have a co-worker from the NYC area and another from the New England area ... the Mass. accent has A LOT more of a characteristic than the NYC accent. The upper midwestern accent follows the Canadian vowels, not New England, nor Northeastern.