Where The Chicago Accent Comes From And How Politics Is Changing It

Where The Chicago Accent Comes From And How Politics Is Changing It

Comedian (and Atlanta native) David Cross has a bit about how a particular accent associated with the rural south can actually be found in semi-rural areas all over the country. For lack of a better term, in culturally red-state areas. It's a little offensive and NSFW, but as a fellow southerner, I can attest to the phenomenon. Some of it makes sense--the first place Cross brings up is Bakersfield, California, which not only has specific historical reasons for sounding country, it has its own country-music sound. But, broadly speaking, it does seem to be real, and it is kind of weird.

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