Classify this guy's accent (living in, cities, snow)

[Deezus]

He sort of sounds likes the principal of the school on Season 4 of the Wire--so yeah, Baltimore.

And yes, I'm one of those corny people who doesn't know much about Baltimore except for watching the Wire...

[Gentoo]

Kind of a North Cities Vowel Shift thing going on but with some other effect.

[StuddedLeather]

He sounds like he's from the Midwest perhaps, then moved to the south.

The South. Final answer.

[tcave360]

Sounded like a Great Plains accent with a slight Southern twang.

[ABQConvict]

The way he pronounces 'oh' sounds coastal southern Mid-Atlantic to me. I have heard that vowel from southern New Jersey to North Carolina.

[EricOldTime]

I was going to say reminds me of rural Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming or Montana.....its clearly a typical accent like what you'd her in rural areas of the inner-mountain west......this man is clearly a westerner, not southern at all.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

He sounds like he's from Tennessee and trying really hard to sound like he's not from there - hence the mixing up of other accents.

FYI, I'm from the west (born and raised in CA, lived for 18 years in WA), but lived in Tennessee for 5 years. He does not sound like he's from the west. And as far as the south, he does not sound like he's from Georgia or Virginia, which have a different sound, or from Texas (I've known several friends from TX and have visited there often. And Alabama has more of a twang. Maybe Florida...but my memory of vacationing there is that they also have more of a twang.

I vote TN, and he's trying to fake like he's not from there.

[NYMTman]

Originally Posted by EricOldTime

I was going to say reminds me of rural Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming or Montana.....its clearly a typical accent like what you'd her in rural areas of the inner-mountain west......this man is clearly a westerner, not southern at all.

There's nothing remotely western about his accent, IMO. I lived in Montana for years and he'd stick out like a sore thumb. Montanans flatten out their o's - the total opposite of this guy. The guy in the video lives in eastern Montana now but came from the eastern shore of Maryland. His accent was widely discussed in the local Montana media because it's so out of place.

[lammius]

Classic Baltimore, hon!

[spencer114]

Sounds like a put-on folksy accent to me.