Are TV and other media outlets slowly destroying Southern accents?

They want everyone normalized (in a statistical sense, not the other way) so we all follow Washington lock step.

Half the people think I have an accent, half don’t.

I will say, my grammar is very southern when i speak

It’s not a bad thing.

The Southern accent and identity is dying. We're all being herded into the soulless world of mass American culture.

Southern accents began to fade out of Hollywood w/ the decline of the western. By the end of the Burt Reynolds good ole boy era, it had almost disappeared completely. Nowadays it is difficult for actors to get cast in their natural voices, unless the part specifies Southern.

This is largely due to TPTB, who regard the South as an alien place. The great sportswriter and sometime novelist Dan Jenkins once complained that if Philip Roth or someone writes about a neighborhood in Brooklyn, he's commenting on the universal condition, but if anyone deals w/the South, an area stretching from Texas to Virginia, he's a "regional writer".

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The Southern accent and identity is dying. We're all being herded into the soulless world of mass American culture.

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Next is global culture

" We be ready for y'all ."

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Why has higher education in areas like the North East had little affect on their native accent?

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No shite, if you really want to sound like an imbecile fake a Bahnston accent

It's not just Southern accents. New England, Midwest etc. TV producers put a lot of emphasis on non regional diction. They want everyone to have a corporatized neutral accent