listen to the accent of one of your cousins. Reminds me a bit of my father:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alznzrsPBOk
That’s an older generation southern accent of the educated class
A vanishing thing
Educated millennial southerners are as hipster as any other unless they choose otherwise like my kids
Anti freepers who imagine me as a Christian Identity Grand kleagle often giggle as YANKEES that they imagine I sound like Matthew McConahey in Dazed
It’s meant as. a dig by their customary self righteousness
But it’s accurate
That is my era accent which would run from South Carolina to Texas below the mid south where I now live