Poncey Southerners. Say "Ite Love" to them and you get the right odd "Good thanks, yourself?" back at ya. I reckon it's all that sunshine what makes them all so feckless.

I say that as someone who is accosted by Southerners as a Northener, and vice versa because of my untraceable accent, so I'm probably not the best person to go to on advice for that.

In reference to the OP, the American Southern Accent is rather like the Scouse accent, in that it amplifies certain qualities of the individual, notably class. For example, the Scouse accent is lovely when a Scouser is being nice to you, but when they are being nasty it is absolutely terrifying. Likewise with the American Southern accent, only with class.