“One way to handle stereotypes about Southerners was to stop acting Southern….Sociologist Lewis Killian interviewed a young woman in the late 1940s who had successfully dropped her Southern accent and spoke Northern, at least most of the time. ” ‘When I went to Columbus, Ohio, from North Carolina, they called me … hillbilly, stumpjumper and […]
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Up North, Southern accent carries high cost
Posted in Just A Bite, Tar Talk, tagged southern accents, southern migration on September 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »