It’s funny how the aw-shucks Southerners like Tim Burchett and John Kennedy disarm their opponents with country charm and then demolish them with brilliance.
Born and raised in the South it’s been my experience that people from other parts of the country equate the Southern accent with having a low IQ......Never understood it because some of the accents I hear coming out of northeastern states don’t exactly sound like they are the brightest bulbs in the shed.
During my time in the workforce occasionally I had people make that mistaken assumption......more times than not they ended up totally embarrassed and having learned a hard lesson about judging a book by its cover.....or in this case accent.
No idea what music your into but Tom Petty wrote a song called “Southern Accents” it describes perfectly how Southerners feel about being mocked for the way we talk.