[MeshugeMikey]

the Entertainment INDUSTRY....is at the root of this.

Tv and Movies....used a recognizable style of speech....as a “gag” several decades ago.....and it stuck in the “minds” of many.

[Red Badger]

I get a laugh every time I see a movie that the actors have to fake Southern Accents.

Did you see the movie Shadrach, with Harvey Keitel cast as a poor southern moonshiner in Virginia in the Depression?

Somebody was nuts to cast him in that role. Andie MacDowell, his co-star is from North Carolina, so her accent was real, if a little bit strained at times.....................