>>102542527Not him but there is 1000% a ton of Southern and Western accents. You can tell if someone is from Texas vs. Alabama vs. Louisiana or Georgia by listening to them talk. I include Western because the culture runs right up the middle of the plains. You have people with "Southern" accents in Iowa, Wyoming and Idaho. And people tend to really forget Southern starts at Virginia. Washington and Jefferson were Southerners.
Just because a Yankee can ever imitate any of them right doesn't mean they don't exist.
Now it is true New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada don't have as much of that sort of even though that's where a ton of westerns are set.
The other thing non-southerners don't get is what the words come from so they never use them right, mispronounce and put the emphasis on the wrong syllables. Y'all is just a contraction of "you all". Howdya do or Howdy is from How do you do? A lot of oddball stuff is just old Baptist child-friendly substitutes for cursing. What in tarnation? is What in Damnation? What in the Sam Hill is What in the Seven Hells and so on.
