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My philosophy is accents generally get deeper by class; the New England accent is more Ivy League/debonaire with the upper/upper-middle class and the high-pitched, nasally accent most associated with the "Boston drawl" is more working-class. Same with Kentuckians and other mid-Southerners...the middle & upper middle classes tend to speak with more of a softer, drawn-out twang while the lower classes speak with a "harder" drawl mixed in with broken English.
I've noticed the same with British accents as well as the British Caribbean...
Within the US: Minnesota, New York, some southern dialects, and Pennsylvania dialects.
Outside the US: Russian, South African, New Zealand, Canadian, British (including England, Scotland, and Wales), Irish
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