. Mo...My dad and his sister were born in Philadelphia, and grew up there, and across the Delaware, in Frenchtown New Jersey...dad never lost his eastern accent, and so folks wonder why I have a slight southern drawl(which I obtained while living for many years in North Carolina}, combined with an eastern accent, even tho I grew up in the midwest, Chicago....and now I am in the Pacific Northwest...living in all those places, I have an odd way of speaking, or so I am told...
We used to visit Philadephia every three years while I was growing up, to see relatives, and I still a huge group of them still living back there...