Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles but the primary reason uh... most people don't realize that the american southern accent is not a sign of ignorance but actually the fact that according to linguists we're the only people left in the united states who generally still sound like our ancestors because if you listen to native-born southern speakers, the average southern against sound more like this, what we call this "moonlight magnolia drawl" because if you speed up that sudden drop overtime and rapidly to come to the kazakhs and most people don't realize that people that came here from europe were largely from the united kingdom so when they got here this was not long lines of the speaking tenants but that's the first and second generations coming off the boat not the children now the third and fourth generations to kids fit quite right mom and dad animal because it's time to develop decided on gation and with a top west today called the virginia tad one accent it's not a complete southern drawl because that's a point area but as you go farther into the southern interior and the years to raise the acceptance to get baker deeper richer by arkansas alabama georgia peggy a devil multilateral but people don't realize that in most cases in louisiana many of the native speakers don't sound like that victim to sound like these i guarantee spend a run by you placement of their families and i came down to the accident on what time it becomes all poultry width of course certain exceptions in new orleans would start in the salad more like new yorkers because of the irish and this is c_n_n_ kalyan influence so they can decide on what i did and even then you get a little confused addicting wanted on the left not anthony collins y they have been realized that at the end of the day seven speakers like i said we're not ignorant as it's often been assumed but we simply sell like the ancestors became here so many years ago
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