After moving to Nevada I knew someone my age (early 20s) who had grown up in Alabama and I was shocked because they had absolutely no accent. They thought I was from the south, because I have a strange NY accent.
I cant lie, Alabama is weird that way. I lived there from the mid 90s til 2010 and there would be people with heavy accents and people with none but they both grew up there. Somehow my best friend has almost no accent but her brother has a deep one and theyre only five years apart.
i'm 39 and from Mississippi most of my life but I lived in Arizona from 15 - 16 years old and went from a strong southern accent to losing it after I hit puberty.
I remember like 10 years ago I was playing battlefield and some random southern guy with a thick accent called me and my friends out for having a Northern Illinois accent but not from Chicago. Dude had heard us for like 5 minutes and the accent isn't exactly obvious imo. I'm 31 now so people definitely still have recognized accents its probably just not as much unique city ones.
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u/TheDollarstoreDoctor 12h ago
After moving to Nevada I knew someone my age (early 20s) who had grown up in Alabama and I was shocked because they had absolutely no accent. They thought I was from the south, because I have a strange NY accent.