N.Y., even NYC accents, change not just from borough to borough, but from neighborhood to neighborhood and sometimes from block to block and also generationally.
Trump's accent isn't just a Queens' one, it's from his neighborhood in Queens, I think, as I've never heard it before. For me, it's just the "strangeness" of it, I guess.
Although I’m a fifth generation Texan, and have never even traveled outside Texas, I have no ‘Texas’ or ‘Southern’ accent’ at all. I have no idea how that happened. None- unless it was growing up adoring and watching classic movies where the characters were often without an accent of any kind. I may have tried to pattern my speech after them from an early age. Who knows?
At any rate, no one can ever identify where I came from by my speech. Strange. No?
People meeting me for the first time often remark, ‘you’re not from Texas, are you?’
Somehow I find this a tiny bit hurtful, as I am very proud of my state- as anyone can tell by reading my lengthy bio. lol :)