[MrEdd]

They are the same.
When I was a kid there were still poor southern whites that spoke that way.

[lurked_for_a_decade]

You’ll have prably heard of Cary, North Carolina but I bet youins don’t know that it’s an acronyum.

CARY stands for Containment Area for Relocated Yankees!

Yuck! Yuck! Ain’t that right Cletus?

[BwanaNdege]

They are the same. When I was a kid there were still poor southern whites that spoke that way.

As a "poor Southern white", I can assure you that while similar sounding and often mutually intelligible, Ebonics and the various Southern dialects are not the same.

Mrs BN is from New England. After our first year or so of married life in Chicagoland area (1971-72), we moved to Middle Georgia (like Middle Earth, but more of us wear shoes than do Hobbits). One day while driving in the country, we stopped to ask directions of a young black boy. I got out of the car and talked a while with him. When I returned, my Yankee wife asked, "What language were you speaking?"

"English"

"Both of you?"

"Yes"

I did not understand a word either of you said!"

(We won't even get into Geechee!)

[Paladin2]

"there were still poor southern whites that spoke that way."

I'm wondering in what direction that social training originally went. (B->W or W->B, or a tossup...)