[wardaddy]

Of course

Southerners have closest intact Uk Dialect speak left

Appalachia in pockets really has it

The rest got inundated with non Anglo accents

Eh

Youse guys

Oy

And so on

[Pelham]

There’s linguists who believe that some American Southern accents are closer to 1776 British speech than modern British accents are.

[sparklite2]

The difference between a Northern girl and a Southern girl is that a Northern girl says, “You may,” while a Southern girl says, “You ALL may.”

[lizma2]

“Appalachia in pockets really has it”

Read years ago that when they were first putting in phone lines the workers came across isolated areas in Appalachia where they spoke Elizabethan English.

Found this interesting

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/224/in-what-ways-is-appalachian-speech-closer-to-elizabethan-english-than-contempora