Do most young Texans in the cities still have Southern accent? (Houston: house, university)

[Gunion Powder]

Originally Posted by hellpaso

Um, no.

I was half joking but sometimes you would think it is true.

[Fire and Ice]

I don't have a "southern accent" and I have lived in Texas my entire life. That's ok as it is fine by me! ::

[meilmarc]

Originally Posted by winkosmosis

That's not a Southern accent-- That's African American Vernacular English which is mostly the same nationwide with some regional variations.

The Texas accent is a variety of the Southern accent and you will find it in rural areas, among some suburban people, but not much with people who grew up in urban areas. But even across the state the Texas accent varies. In East Texas it's indistinguishable from Southern. Going northwest it turns into a more western accent and blends into the Oklahoma accent

Im black from Houston and most blacks from the inner city have very thick southern accents especially the ones who are 30 and up. When I travel Im alway told that I have a heavy southern accents, folks from new orleans who live around me always give me and my other neighbors a ribbing for talking "country" lol

So AAVE has nothing to do with an accent

[Metro Matt]

Oh please.

As if Blacks from New Orleans don't have a Southern accent either...they may have that smidgen of French influence from several hundred years ago, but they are realistically more a part of the Deep South & are more like the rest of the Deep South than France or Europe.

[Gunion Powder]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

Oh please.

As if Blacks from New Orleans don't have a Southern accent either...they may have that smidgen of French influence from several hundred years ago, but they are realistically more a part of the Deep South & are more like the rest of the Deep South than France or Europe.

Of course they have a southern accent but it isn't a country sounding accent like the rest of the south. Some of the accents in Houston were passed down from the dialects of deep south farmers and sharecroppers who went to the city. The black New Orleans accent is heavily influenced by Caribbean emigrants who came to the area, and the bubble that exists over the city kept it local.

On the other hand you do have natives of Houston and southeast Texas with New Orleans influence in their speech. You can hear it in my family.

[soletaire]

To me, the black new orleans accent is the countriest sounding accent their is outside of alabama blacks.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by soletaire

To me, the black new orleans accent is the countriest sounding accent their is outside of alabama blacks.

Then you haven't heard both black and white Mississippians....

[Gunion Powder]

Originally Posted by soletaire

To me, the black new orleans accent is the countriest sounding accent their is outside of alabama blacks.

I don't see how. It is a distinctly urban accent with no real connection to the country. There is barely an ounce of drawl or twang in it.

[soletaire]

Originally Posted by mega man

I don't see how. It is a distinctly urban accent with no real connection to the country. There is barely an ounce of drawl or twang in it.

Idk...I just hear a very swampy, backwater drawl with some yat mixed in ...dont hear the urban twist at all..its extremely country to my ears...but different ears hear thing differently I suppose.

[soletaire]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

Then you haven't heard both black and white Mississippians....

Heard them too when i traveled thru mississippi...plus i work with a few people from mississippi now and for the most part they sound just like east texans...and the people in the part I was in sounded alot more like east texans...gulf coastal and delta mississippi sounded markedly different/steeper in accent tho to me.....but alabama, atlanta and new orleans accents are by far the countriest accents ive heard from blacks..but ur right, parts of mississippi are definitely up for honorable mention.