“You’re too humble, as I saw you correctly identify exactly where people came from time and again based on their accents and speech patterns alone.”
My father had that same ability with Southern accents, it was uncanny. Maybe it’s a skill of Mississippi’s native sons. I have a very slight Tidewater accent from my Virginia youth but wardaddy managed to spot its telltale sign. 99.9% would never notice it at all.
My dads bestie
His VMI roomie from Richmond
Ran American Filtrona (worlds largest cig filters maker)for years as ceo then chairman
He had distinct “out” accent
I absorbed the sound
It’s a dead tell of lower Virginia folks if out sounds like a sharp “house” sound