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The Southern dialects collectively known as Southern American English stretch across the southeastern and south-central United States, but exclude the southernmost areas of Florida and the extreme western and south-western parts of Texas as well as the Rio Grande Valley (Laredo to Brownsville). This linguistic region includes Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Arkansas, as well as most of Texas, Florida, Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
Southern dialects originated in large part from immigrants from the British Isles who moved to the South in the 17th and 18th centuries. Settlement also included large numbers of Protestants from Ulster, Ireland, and from Scotland. Upheavals such as the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and World War II caused mass migrations of those and other settlers throughout the United States.
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With the annunciation of our vowels, and our rather lazy pronunciations of some terms, the Southern (US) accent is
one of the most characteristic american accents to foreigners. However it could often play as a double edged sword, people often down the accent as uneducated, THICK, and twangy, and associate it with rural country bumpkin culture.Do you think it gets much more hate than it warrants??? and why??
Also, be aware that a Texan accent would differ from a Charleston accent.
