[JouleZ]

I lived in Little Rock for three years. No one spoke “Southern”. Been living in NW Arkansas for the last 55 years,.. ****************************************************

So which is it? Arkansas is Southern. Have a great new year FRiend of the South!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***So which is it? Arkansas is Southern. Have a great new year FRiend of the South!****

Simply because a state is in the south does not mean the people speak Alabaman or Mississippian.

My kin in New Mexico do not speak like Californians and my family in Nashville, Tennessee most certanly do not speak “southern”.

I heard my first real southern dialect when stopped at a store in Memphis 40 years ago! The girl must have been from down Mississippi way as my wife’s kin and other Memphis area residents do not speak “southern”.

And since Mattie was from Dardanelle in YELL county(thriving river boat towns) she most certainly did not speak north of the river Hillbilly.