[Darren McCarty]

I know the accent. I call it an auto worker accent because most people I know with it are either auto workers or their descendants, descendants of Kentuckians or Tennesseans, or live in places like Hillsdale, Adrian, or Monroe. It's not quite a Tennessee or Kentucky accent, but there is some influence.

Some say I have it, but I think I sound more like a Central Ohioan. I have no Southern heritage, but Dad's side of the family came from Adrian and worked on railroads, and later tool and dye and auto factories. They moved a lot downstate, so there's a lot of different accent influences that rubbed off on me.

[cripplecreek]

I’m full yankee but people have told me I have the slight southern accent. I grew up in southwestern Jackson county (Hanover) about 15 miles from Hillsdale.

[Ax]

I'm a native Detroiter. I can USUALLY tell another Detroiter by his accent. A couple of years ago, I was in a Radio Shack, and the salesman was explaining something to me. I asked him what part of Detroit he was from. He asked how I knew he was from MOTOWN. I told him it was accent. He said that he didn't have an accent. Afraid you do, bro.

And how is it that a person from Windsor, Ontario, can have an entirely different accent, eh? It is only about a mile from Detroit to Windsor across the Detroit River, eh?