Why is it that Northerners and Californians use a (fake) Southern accent when they want to sound like they are dullards or like they are a bit slow? Do people who speak with, like you know, a California accent, like, you know, like realize how, like really, really dumb it sounds? Especially since, like, you know, like they end like all of their sentences with, like, you know, a question sound?
What about New Yoakehs and thems from Baaahstuhn? Do they really think it is reflects well on their use of English for a visitor to have to hire a translator to understand what they are saying? Seriously, does anyone think that the phrase, “Yo, kuhmeah. Wahyou tink you doo’n? Hah? Geattahere” is intelligible in common English?
And besides, even Yankees that have lived in the South know that when one is addressing a group of folks, its “all y’all” not “yall.” ;^)