[needmorePaine]

weirdest accents, followed close behind by Louisiana, Alabama, Minnesota, New York and New Jersey

I wonder if respondents based their answers on the actual accents of people from these states. For example, if I tell someone from another state that I am from New Jersey, they'll respond with something like "Don't you mean New Joisey?" I have yet to hear anyone from north, south, or central New Jersey ever pronounce it that way. If not that, they wonder why I don't sound like Tony Soprano.

I guess I know how the Minnesotans feel when people think they all sound like they should be in the movie Fargo.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Pittsburgh and Baltimore deserve spots on that weirdest accent list.

[surrey]

I get the same thing. i grew up on Long Island so, of course people here in MA. ,where I now live, say Long G-island . Sorry folks that’s not what we say.
I also beg to differ with the survey. Having lived in many states on the east coast and Ohio, I’ll take a New Yorker every time. You want arrogant, move to MA..

[Dexter Morgan]

That’s silly to think people in Minnesota should sound like those in Fargo.

Everyone knows Minnesota is mostly Somalian, Ukrainian, and Hmong.

[Gettin Betta]

I agree 100% I knew heard it pronounced “Joisey” till I left the state

[ScottfromNJ]

“I have yet to hear anyone from north, south, or central New Jersey ever pronounce it that way.”

Yep. And there’s really no such thing as a NJ accent. If you grew up in Northern Jersey within about 15 miles of New York City for example on a line stretching down to the Driscoll Bridge your accent is likely to be more of a NYC accent. But since so many people live there you would get the impression that its a normal NJ accent. In the far northern and western part of the state that accent is barely noticeable if at all. Central, far western and southern NJ is more of a PA accent, with sometimes even a hint of a country drawl.