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I was gonna say, black people throughout the country tend to have a Southern twang, but the whites and others in Chicago don't sound southern in the least.
No the black people across the US do not sound with the Southern accent. in NYC they sound like this.
If I didn't know a person was from Chicago; I'd think they were from the south.
Thats interesting because when I heard someone point out a Chicago accent it was like .. instead of "coffee" its "cahfee" and instead of "hockey" its "hackey".... and then I read on here tht Conneticut differ from NYers because they say "cahfee" too...?? Just thought it was an interesting similarity
There's an annoying accent down in South Jersey and in some parts of Pennsylvania wherein they say "Home" like "Hoom" and "Phone" like "Phoon". I find that very annoying.
Also, within New Jersey there are a number of accents (although no one, ANYWHERE, says "Joisey"!). People in certain parts of Hudson County use "yuhs" as a plural of "you", and say "Nork" for "Newark", "Storts" for "Stewarts", etc. They just sound stupid.
I am from the South, and let's see........I don't really care for the Minnesota accent, nor do I care for most of the Midwestern accents. The New York City accent is interesting but is ignorant sounding to most Southerners.
As for my own accent......I like most Southern accents, but there are some I can't stand. Hollywood enjoys portraying all Southerners as having the stereotypical "gentleman of the plantation accent". This accent, to me, is the most annoying of Southern accents, especially on a woman. It is more and more outdated I might add. But yet, Hollywood loves using this accent for their depictions of "sexy Southern Belles" who walk around fainting and saying "I do declare" all the time except pronouncing it like " Aye dew Declaya ".
I personally can't stand it......it embarrasses me as a Southern Belle whenever I hear it. None of the women in my family (nor do most people in Alabama for that matter), speak that way. They speak more like Forrest Gump....which to me, surprisingly, is more appealing.
I think it all depends on where you are from. Hollywood and the upperclass liberal establishment of this country enjoy putting down the Southern accent. What is so ironic is that most Southerners think most Northern accents sound stupid and ignorant. It is all a matter of where you come from and what you prefer.
They sound Southern to me. I have never heard any blacks anywhere speak without their derivative of the Southern accent.
I think the other poster's point was a little out there anyways. Why would whites in Chicago sound like Southerners? Blacks sound like Southerners because that is where they are from no matter where you go in the country. By the way, most blacks up North still call the South "home".
If I didn't know a person was from Chicago; I'd think they were from the south.
What??????? Please oh please please please never insult people from the South in that way ever again. I hear people from up North all the time talk about how certain people in the upper Midwest sound Southern. I don't know what the heck they are talking about. I have never heard anybody from up there sounding Southern. Maybe in the border areas of Southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, where people from the South migrated in the past, but Chicago????????? Give me a break! Keep dreaming.
I'm really not a fan of Southern or New York accents at all.
I love Minnesota accents.
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Just thought it was an interesting similarity
