What's your opinion on the Southern accent?

[thefluffyone93]

Meh.
The Brooklyn accent is the best.

But I don't find anything wrong with the southern accent at all.
Of course, most of my experience with it has been with Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy, so thats not saying much.

[Motep]

I've a half accent, myself. Family has it, people in the region dont, generally. It is homey.

[Ibrahim]

having lived with this accent all around me (miraculously leaving my accent largely intact) for 4 years, I can say that what I told Richard over at project SYW still holds true (it's in context of being in Colorado):

....they don't speak in this annoying Texan twang.

Texan, as some might tell you, is in fact a southern accent. as to why I find it annoying? well, it's almost unintelligible to me-the drawl being the main reason. it's hard to decipher what a person is saying when they sound like this: "owl dem gahs oh-vuh i-at the howlding pin awr fyeedin' duh hawgz". though to be fair, it's not something that is reprehensible or shameful: it's just the way the accent is. it's what happens when your accent's origin lay in another accent that drawled a bit (Cornish apparently).

[Tuuvi]

I'm not a big fan of the southern accent but I like to do one at home for fun.

Some FLDS polygamists have an accent similar to a southern one and it's one of the most awful accents I've ever heard in my life, especially when it's a young adult male who's speaking.

[Monk]

Accents in general don't do anything for me. Though I always have a good laugh when people claim I have one. Yeah right.

[A Nerd]

Pahk the cah at hahvahd yahd. Can't top that. I did go to Virginia once, funny how the southern accent seemed to pop up once you went south of the Maryland border.

[Centurion1]

my town in maryland is pretty southern. we get the first day off deer season off and we are renonwned for our old tobacco plantations. Its the tip of the old southern black belt.