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South of I-10 is transplant country, if you feel the dialects are diluded it probably has something to do with all the midwestners that have relocated.
? I can't agree, because every Florida I ever met sounded some degree of Southern--or to put it better, they didn't sound Northern
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You basically answered your own question. Just because they don't sound northern doesn't automatically make it southern. Stick a lot of those people in any other part of the south and they will sound out of place there too. Maybe we should just call it a fusion accent and be done with it.
The Gulf Coast was mainly settled by the French/Spanish, who began to speak English at a later date. It was still Spanish-speaking territory until 1812. The "Southern accent" was manly a feature of the agrarian population that came much earlier from the British Isles, whose influence never reached the Gulf Coast.
Every Florida town along the length of I-10 between Jacksonville and Pensacola is overrun with pick-up driving, mud-bogging, Skoal-spitting, deer-hunting, Southern-talking rednecks. You don't know what you're talking about.
Every Florida town along the length of I-10 between Jacksonville and Pensacola is overrun with pick-up driving, mud-bogging, Skoal-spitting, deer-hunting, Southern-talking rednecks. You don't know what you're talking about.
Between, but not including. Go west towards Gulf Shores, Ocean Springs, Biloxi, D'Iberville, and Gulfport and that accent will begin to fade, but the southerness is still there.
I've spent some time in Biloxi/Ocean Springs and Gulfport. I heard almost nothing but southern accents. Certainly more than I hear in larger cities in the south.
I've spent some time in Biloxi/Ocean Springs and Gulfport. I heard almost nothing but southern accents. Certainly more than I hear in larger cities in the south.
Fascinating. I heard very few southern accents in Biloxi/Gulfport when compared with the rest of the state which is 99% southern accents.
You can't always tell where somebody is from in a town or city. They may be from up the road or from another state in the south, etc. It's common in many southern cities and towns. Accents of different words may vary in the south from place to place.
OP has a point, but Mobile, AL is an exception to the rule. They sound as southern as a person from Birmingham. This phenomenon probably has something to do with all the northerners that moved to the Gulf Coast, and over time has caused the accent to become gumbo. Biloxi and Gulfport has a different southern accent, but their culture is no different from the rest of us. I know that I can't speak for everyone from Gulfport, but the folks I've interacted with from down there calls a Coke, pop...
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