[ SECRET POST #2079 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2079 ⌋

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Comments

[littlestbirds]

That reminds me of the whole british thing where it's okay to make fun of "chav" culture (basically mocking the culture of people who grow up in poverty with few opportunities) when if you look at the actual stats low income brits are much more likely to be in an interracial relationship.

And I agree about great Americans coming from the south, but I think that's kind of missing the point regarding accents as class/education markers. Of course there have always been successful educated people in the south, but I'd bet the history of correlating thicker accents with the rural uneducated poor in the past includes them. Actually similar to how I understand accent can work in the UK i.e. a completely bullshit way of judging people and reinforcing class barriers. wow, apparently I'm like a communist or something? You get my tl;dr point I'm sure.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not that great people have come out of the South despite their accents, it's that many great people in US history were Southern, including numerous Founding Fathers. This idea of the South as uneducated and backward has developed without any real regard to the true nature of the region.

A lot of it is tied to Hollywood, which portrays the South as a backwards, racist, small town, rural place. Sure, all those things exist, but they exist elsewhere in the country, too. It's very similar to the way most Americans view Germans: Hollywood only portrays some periods in the country/area's history so people come to believe those are the general traits of the populace and associate the accent with that stereotype.

When it really comes down to it, there are very few accents that aren't stereotyped in the US and those are mostly accents with very close ties to General American.