[RegulatorCountry]

"That's Reiner on the phone from Los Angeles, doing a mountain accent."

That's a Tidewater accent, DUmmie. I suspect he made it up. I know SW Virginia well, and they do not drop the "r," they draw it out. It would be more like "Ah wuz bowrrn raht ovurr tharr."

[rmgatto]

The Post is never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story line. Maybe the article should be titled "Don't Call Me Waterman".

[TKDietz]

None of the people I know from Gate City sound like that. I like the way they say Tuesday like it has a "you" in the middle of it..."tyousday." I imagine though it's like anywhere else, there are all sorts of variations in accents. I've always lived in the South except when I've lived abroad and some people here do have strong Southern accents, some have none. But of course those who sound like they have none to me get teased about their Southern accents if they go up North. I don't think I have one but I probably do. Sometimes I know I do because I use it for effect. But even where I live there are a lot of variations in how Southern accents sound. It's hard to guess exactly where someone is found by the way his Southern accent sounds.

One thing seems to be for certain though. Whenever national news crews go out to find someone to interview in the South they seem to always try to find the people with the worst accents. I think they go out of their way to find the dumbest people they can find too. It seems like they just love trying to make Southerners look stupid.