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Washington DC. Virtually every country on earth has a diplomatic presence there which alone can be in the hundreds in terms of attached diplomats/staff and their families. The city/metro area is already a huge magnet to immigrants from Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, El Salvador, Bolivia, and Guatemala to name a few with substantial visibility/presence.
Washington DC. Virtually every country on earth has a diplomatic presence there which alone can be in the hundreds in terms of attached diplomats/staff and their families. The city/metro area is already a huge magnet to immigrants from Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, El Salvador, Bolivia, and Guatemala to name a few with substantial visibility/presence.
True alot of entirely different languages can be heard in DC although. Accent wise it is weird how AA in NO have their accent with pronunciations like "pernt" for point and "earl" for oil and some of the white folks sound like NYC.
NYC has different accents. I has NNJ, LI, Conn, native NYC accents, and then all the immigrants have their own accents, and on top of all that the transplants from other states.
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Louisville KY metro is a complete mix of Upper South and the more neutral Midwestern accent. I've worked with people who grew up in same neighborhood and have very different accents. Half of people sound like they're from TN and half sound like they're from Indianapolis. That's not the case in Cincinnati, where Midwestern accents dominate even into the KY side.
NYC. I walk out my door and almost everyone in NYC and Hudson County, NJ has accents from all over the globe in addition to all of the local, regional dialects.
Baton Rouge has a large variety among native born American residents. There are people with a regular Southern accents, Cajun French accents, New Orleans area accents and regular American accidents. There are also generic "ghetto" accents in some parts of town. BR is at a cultural crossroads of Louisiana with Acadiana to the west and New Orleans to the east while areas to the north are more of a regular Southern with less Cajun and Creole influences. Parts of the metro area like Point Coupee Prish, New Roads, and Gonzales have a strong Cajun French influence. Ascension, West Baton Rouge, Iberville and Point Coupee Parishes are classified as part of Acadiana.
There are also generic "ghetto" accents in some parts of town.
What is that supposed to even mean? What is a generic ghetto accent there's no such thing? We need to get that out of our heads!
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