[ngc6656]

People in the South are very biased against anyone with a eastern or maybe western accent.

Southerners I know (I'm one myself) are not biased against those with regional accents other than their own, but are suspicious of arrogant and pretentious people regardless of their accents.

[Coldwater Creek]

So what are you saying?

[ngc6656]

Oh darn, did my accent throw you? :>) I'll try again:

That meaning is more important to southerners than accent or idiom.