Posted on 09/04/2015 10:29:23 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Appallingly, a few years ago, in a race for Virginia’s governor, the native candidate was horribly mocked for his SW Virginia accent .. by supporters of the Ohio native (who won! and now sits in the U.S. Senate).
well said
A few of my Carroll ancestors were involved in a battle that preceded King’s Mountain by a bit- ‘Huck’s Defeat’, the first in the series of battles in the southern campaign that began to turn the tide of the Revolution in favor of the Patriots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huck’s_Defeat
http://www.chmuseums.org/battle-of-hucks-defeat-hb/
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Ha!
I’ve also met people born and bred in TN who speak without a Southern accent at all—and are insulted if you think they should be such a rube as to talk like that.
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