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Texas. Its Southern, Great Plains, Southwest, and Mexico all in one!
I second this. The border areas are almost Mexico extensions. San Antonio is the center of Tex Mex which is different. The Texas Triangle is its own region each with its own combination of cultures. East Texas is basically the South, and the Texas Triangle is the exit of the South. The Panhandle is like the the rural Southwest.
I was watching Jeopardy the other day. The college edition. One girl sounded Southern wearing a University of Mississippi sweatshirt. Alex said she's from Missouri and attends Univ of Mississippi. Idk if Alex was just reading incorrectly and she's actually from MS and goes to college there. Or if she was actually from MO and had a southern accent and went to MS. But I was surprised at how Southern her accent sounded for being from MO. So Alex could've been wrong.
Yeah her! Ok yeah I was really surprised at her having such a Southern accent. It wasn't STRONG, but it was obvious for sure. Maybe being in Mississippi a few years contributed to an underlying slight inclination to a Southern accent? Idk. But either way, she was from Missouri then and I definitely noticed her Southern accent.
Yeah her! Ok yeah I was really surprised at her having such a Southern accent. It wasn't STRONG, but it was obvious for sure. Maybe being in Mississippi a few years contributed to an underlying slight inclination to a Southern accent? Idk. But either way, she was from Missouri then and I definitely noticed her Southern accent.
Depends on what part of the state she is from. I haven't heard her talk but someone from the bootheel can certainly sound like they are from Mississippi. They aren't that far apart geographically after all.
Depends on what part of the state she is from. I haven't heard her talk but someone from the bootheel can certainly sound like they are from Mississippi. They aren't that far apart geographically after all.
I don't really hear all that much of a southern accent from her. Mild at most.
Yeah it's mild, but I definitely noticed it. And I actually thought of the debate around MO's accent hahaha. To other Southerners, she may not have an accent at all, but to an outsider she does have a slight accent. Again, it could even be just attending college in MS for many years. People often pick up accents of where they live regardless of where they're from. It'll never be as heavy as a native of that area, but a few pronunciations here and there. So who knows if she always had one from being from more rural/southern MO or if she picked it up in MS.
Yeah it's mild, but I definitely noticed it. And I actually thought of the debate around MO's accent hahaha. To other Southerners, she may not have an accent at all, but to an outsider she does have a slight accent. Again, it could even be just attending college in MS for many years. People often pick up accents of where they live regardless of where they're from. It'll never be as heavy as a native of that area, but a few pronunciations here and there. So who knows if she always had one from being from more rural/southern MO or if she picked it up in MS.
I'd say her accent is pretty standard for many people in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, NW Arkansas. Her accent is certainly not what is typical for an "accent" in Mississippi although I can see why someone from another part of the country might hear SOMETHING. Here in Oklahoma we have a lot of people who have what one might consider a variation of a southern accent. She wouldn't be one of them.
Also, Ole Miss/Oxford has a lot of people from other places so I wouldn't think her accent would be would be as influenced like it might be if she were living in other towns in Mississippi.
I voted for Maryland, because it is such a transitional area. The reason I voted for Maryland is:
Reasons it's considered Southeastern:
- The U.S. Census considers Maryland part of the South - more specifically the South Atlantic.
- It was a slave state in 1860, just before the start of The American Civil War.
Reasons it's considered Northeastern:
-An older (think early/mid 90s geography book I remember) considered Maryland as the Southern most part of the Northeast.
- Washington D.C. is just south of and borders on Maryland. I always thought D.C.'s location was picked because it was smack dab between the northern and southern states that were official states. In other words it was the divider between the north and south.
- Baltimore, Maryland's biggest city is part of the BosWash Corridor Megalopolis - the rail connecting all the biggest cities of the Northeast (Boston, New York City and Philadelphia) with the nation's capitol (Washington D.C.).
If we're just classifying states as Northern and Southern, with no Mid categories, Maryland always makes me wonder which it would be considered.
And yes, I am waiting for someone to reply to my post with a snarky comment about how my OPINION is wrong.
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