re: Most Appealing US Accent?

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For me it would be Central Virginia—think Richmond, Lynchburg, Charlottesville. It sounds southern, but a more refined southern dialect and less harsh and twangy than what you find in Georgia, Alabama, etc. East Texans speak nicely as well.

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The one that most people who are educated enough to know any better think of as southern is that which is spoken natively from the Virgina coast to North Florida...it is the one that most hollywood southern accents are based on...

I speak with a deep southern Appalachian accent. People who speak with a similar accent are actually speaking the closest thing to actual English in the world today...even more so than most of the UK. The deeper into appalchia you go the more english the language gets.