[The Sons of Liberty]

My Mother grew up in the Carolinas, splitting her time between Easley, SC and Jeter Mountain(near Hendersonville) NC, but she lived a good portion of her life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Consequently, you knew she sure wasn’t from up North, but her Southern accent was hard to pin down. Except when she would visit relatives in the Carolinas. Then she would re-charge her accent and it would last a good two-three weeks before settling back to normal.

[dblshot]

I had a freshman English teacher who was really a Faulkner fan. When he was sober enough to get to class he had some interesting takes on the Southern dialect which he stated was closer to the mother tongue of our British fore bearers than that “Mediterranean and Kraut bastardized mush spoken up North. He also said that english ain't math so two negatives don't make a positive and there ain't nothing more positive than I ain't going to do nothing. Meaning not only am I not going to do something, I am not even going to do nothing. Got one of my best grades in college in that class.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

My wife grew up in North Carolina, and has a bit of accent still. But when she talks to her mother on the telephone, you can hear the accent get stronger minute by minute. it recedes in a day or so, though.