You're showing your ignorance.
You get up outta' the Tidewater and they use MOUNTAIN SOUTHERN, and it's not all that different than what's spoken in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia.
Hey, thinking of things past (which has that "t" suffix that upset you so), we took a trip through Tobacco Road when I was a kid before they jacked the area up and moved some modern stuff onto site in what has to be one of the major rehabilitation efforts of the Twentieth Century.