[bityard]

I grew up in a poor rural part of Michigan. Day to day, you didn't meet many people who lived there by choice so the demographic (and Midwestern accent) was pretty homogenous. In high school, our class had a new kid who moved up from Kansas and to us, he sounded _extremely_ southern. His first week at school was pretty much everybody asking him to say stuff in his funny accent.

[throwway120385]

There's variations on the southern accent. My dad was from South Carolina and he could tell which southern state someone was from by their accent.