National TV and radio is killing regional accents. It used to be when a kid grew up in area X 90% of the voices they heard were people from there, with that accent, so that’s how they learned to talk. Now with radio and TV a good 60 or 75% of the voices a kid will hear have that semi-midwestern accent TV heads in the 60 decides was the “generic American” accent.
But we still have regional cooking.
agreed
there’s many areas now on local TV where they have brought down yankees and a southern accent is not heard.
not sure if they want the accent or because we’re not too liberal enough to cover the local news