Tennessee and Texas sound a lot alike.
For a Yankee, that accent from a woman is like a hot knife going through butter.
We moved to Tennessee when we fled California. I find the accent quite pleasant.
I remember visiting Nashville in the mid 1990s and speaking with a woman who was working at the front desk of the hotel I stayed at and she said she was from Mississippi originally but had been in Tennessee for the last three or four years. Her Mississippi family and friends would joke about her “sounding Yankee” by that time.
I’m a NBT (native born Texan) and am proud of my accent. However, I have lived and traveled over a good bit of the world and have noticed that my accent has emulsified (I’m 74) over the years. It would be interesting to know where in Texas the sample was taken for the “Texas Accent” as Texas is a large state and as such has several regional accents within an umbrella Texas accent. I have to say though, being that the population of Texas has doubled over the past twenty years or so and throw into the mix of tv, internet, social media and so on the rural “howdy, where abouts y’all from” accent has all but disappeared. Anyway, y’all come see us, you hear? Lol....
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“Tennessee and Texas sound a lot alike.”
As does southern Illinois.
Because they talk with their teeth together
Boston accent is pretty sharp as are most northern accents
What a lot of folks don’t realize is that there is a distinct difference between a country accent which basically means someone not taught decent grammar in the South and a true Southern accent and they overlap
A southern accent TN accent is distinct from Texas and is divided between Bristol to Cookeville, Cookeville to the Tennessee River and Tennessee River to Missisissippi River which the latter is more like a Mississippi delta accent ...law oong and draaaawn out
Given the recent northern invasion of the desirable urban southern areas our accents are fading quick from the Piedmont to Nashville to Austin
I prefer Deep South literary accent pleasantries and Minnesota and Southern California beachy tones
I’m fond of Brooklyn Italian speech but I wouldn’t call it pleasing to the ear
In Texas it seemed to me a real southern accent was mostly east Texas and north Dallas....you hear more southern in Dallas than Brentwood TN
The rest of Texas is more a country accent that gets drier as you go further West....Oklahoma ditto same thing
But it really is hard to distinguish purely southern from country sometimes
Like Ben Johnson the actor from Oklahoma had a mix of southern and country tone
Lindsey Graham has a southern accent
The actor Tommy Lee Jones has a Texas country western sounding accent....southern but different