[TrevorAustin]

The article says that the wage penalty applies to people with "strong regional accents," and that Southern is the fourth most likely accent for job seekers to try to suppress, with New Jersey being #1. Framing this as specifically Southern inverts the actual finding, and is just culture war chum.

[Wolfenstein98k]

The study which found New Jersey at number 1 was a different study - one about self-censoring.

The first study mentioned is the one that found the South most discriminated against.

[hgdfhgfdhgdf]

No it's not. The study compared accents from Southerners and standard accents and found Southerners made 20% less. This has nothing to do with New Jersey residents suppressing their accent.

[RichardCA]

My dad was a New Jersey guy and a Stevens Tech grad. He didn't have the accent but he did have the gruff attitude. It took me a while to understand how that rubbed off on me.

[mbgerring]

And of course this is what they led with, because it’s Fox News. Why is this on HN’s front page?

[edgyquant]

Because the title is accurate? It isn’t that New Jersey accents are the applicants who lose out the most it’s that those are the people who suppress it the most. That’s irrelevant to the title and is just an interesting fact pointed out by the article.

[082349872349872]

The odd thing to me (as someone born [if not bred] in the south) is that I grew up with a bright distinction between "poor whites" and "white trash", but as far as I can tell now (safely on the other side of the Atlantic) the "culture war" —even on Fox' side— seems to be doing its best to conflate the two notions.