[TexasCajun]

Hey Ralph Blumenthal,

You're attempt to make southerns and Texans look stupid and uneducated is just another hit piece from the Liberal NYTimes.
There is a new south and it is mostly Republican now! Eat your heart out!

Oh! By the way, Did ya'll happen to catch dat Texan having Thanksgiving turkey with our troups in Bagdad! huh?

[Pharmboy]

Perhaps this is the FIRST time I have EVER defended the NY Times: I think this was written with a scholarly bent to it and an appreciative tone. The fact that an academic Texan was the one profiled for the interview says it all, IMO.

Many Yankees (like me) love to hear a good, syrupy drawl from the South; only the ignorant ones disparage our country's great dialects.

Dundee makes an interesting point above about the lack of dialects in Aussie land.