People from St. Louis don’t have a Southern accent

[invalid]

Ironic in what way? I’m trying to understand how he defines country because the accents are much thicker in this areas. You’re an idiot if you disagree.

Of course Tennessee and Arkansas are the South, the dark red states are classified as the Deep South. Appalachian accent is the rednecks from West Virginia. Idiot. You failed along with them.

You be doing too damn much

According to this map, Arkansas is indeed part of the Deep South and Eastern Tennessee is part of the Appalachian Valley.

And according to this map y'all accent is indeed southern.

Ya damn near Mississippi gulf southern.

 

[VirginiaSlim75]

What are y’all doing lmao

And it always amuses me when y’all start posting maps...as if an imaginary line will dictate how someone sounds

 

[BrownBunny]

You be doing too damn much

According to this map, Arkansas is indeed part of the Deep South and Eastern Tennessee is part of the Appalachian Valley.

And according to this map y'all accent is indeed southern.

Ya damn near Mississippi gulf southern.

How many maps did you crawl through to get this bullshyt?

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

the stuff yall waste yalls mind energy on smh

 

[Biscayne]

You sound like you was concentrating hard on enunciating the words right lmao, go with your instincts, ma!



LA is GOAT, the amount of culture to come from the city in just basically 120 years is amazing, it was just becoming a midsize city in 1900. All these cities either had head starts on LA or more appreciable histories prior, and the ones who didn't like Phoenix, ain't anywhere near as influential domestically or internationally...

The only city LA has to track is NY and that was my point in the other thread, LA is closer to NY than anybody has been in centuries. NY got the age and the legacy but its clear they the only two cities that can really compare to each other...

Miami has a similar track as LA but its reach and pizazz ain't quite on the same level as LA yet...

I was about to say. Miami is the only city on LA's pace in terms of boom and growth of influence in a short span. Miami was basically Myrtle Beach status a little over 35yrs ago. Maybe even lower than Myrtle, because at least Myrtle has hella tourist attractions to choose from. Miami didn't.

Miami was a backwater resort town where old Jews from NY went to die. Fast forward to now, it's now a global arts/cultural destination. In the words of Macon GA rap legend Jeezy:

Thank God for those days, thank God for those nights. Though it may seem wrong, thank God for that White.

Blasphemous line. But it applies to Miami so well. Cocaine made the city cool. Cool brought in more tourist. Tourist brought revenue. So on and so forth.

 

[Biscayne]

Ironic in what way? I’m trying to understand how he defines country because the accents are much thicker in this areas. You’re an idiot if you disagree.

Of course Tennessee and Arkansas are the South, the dark red states are classified as the Deep South. Appalachian accent is the rednecks from West Virginia. Idiot. You failed along with them.

Nelly moved to STL as teenager. He’s from fukking Texas, his accent has nothing to do with us. KC is a smaller city with less to offer than STL. I just listened to a Tech Nine sounds like he sounds like he could be from STL. That’s normal accent for someone who isn’t a dumb hood booger.

Nelly is barely from Austin. He's from Austin like Ciara is from Austin. Dude is from The Lou. I've heard the "hurr/thurr" enunciation in Dallas. But I don't recall hearing folks speak like that in Austin. Dallas is basically the Lower Midwest/Southern US. Dallas has elements of both. But Austin is on a diffirent wave. Tech 9nine sounds like he could be a Cali dude. As someone else alluded to in this thread. But other Kansas City natives(like Eddie Griffith and Janelle Monae) don't sound like that. Cedric The Entertainer is a wild card tho. He lived in Jefferson City and lower southeast Missouri but went to HS in the STL area.

 

[Taadow]

I
KC is a smaller city with less to offer than STL.

Hurr you go again with this BOOWLsheeyit.

St. Louis is dying as we speak. People keep moving to KC,
while they leaving STL in droves.

STL ain’t been crackin’ since The Monastery and Club Casino was on.
Y’all got all that space with nothing on it. You got ruins of a downtown.
You gotta go all the way to Chesterfield or St. Charles to do anything.
STL might as well not exist East of the Airport and North of Forest Park.

“Country” ain’t just how your voice sounds, it’s things you do.
Y’all country. Ain’t even any shame in that - most niccas are raised country.
But don’t lie to these nice folk on the Internet talmbat y’all aren’t,
because it’s more muthafuccas in St. Louis/Ferguson/U City/Florissant/
adjacent to Lucas & Hunt Road that look/sound/act like Nelly or Murphy Lee
than there are that don’t.

 

[murksiderock]

I was about to say. Miami is the only city on LA's pace in terms of boom and growth of influence in a short span. Miami was basically Myrtle Beach status a little over 35yrs ago. Maybe even lower than Myrtle, because at least Myrtle has hella tourist attractions to choose from. Miami didn't.

Miami was a backwater resort town where old Jews from NY went to die. Fast forward to now, it's now a global arts/cultural destination. In the words of Macon GA rap legend Jeezy:

Thank God for those days, thank God for those nights. Though it may seem wrong, thank God for that White.

Blasphemous line. But it applies to Miami so well. Cocaine made the city cool. Cool brought in more tourist. Tourist brought revenue. So on and so forth.

Miami was already a major city 35 years ago (1985), but that's the only point I'll disagree with you on...

Miami is very much a young city and following LA's trajectory, coming from obscurity to be a global player. Unscientific, but I put Miami about 35-40 years behind LA in development, seems it really "introduced" itself as a real city in the 30s and 40s, and has picked it up with each passing era...

As it stands now, it ain't an equal to LA (LA really has no equals, because it ain't quite equal to NY, just closer than any other city); by any measure Miami is significantly smaller than LA, Miami is definitely international but not quite to the degree of LA, Miami has the smaller and less diverse economy, etc. But Miami is definitely the city in the LA mold of how they burst on the scene to surpass most of the legacy cities before them...

LA will remain the #2 US city for quite some time unless there's a significant shift in lifestyle (pandemics, wars, and depressions being the type of things that cause cities/nations to fall from grace), and Miami will probably be what LA is today, in 35-40 years, unless some significant lifestyle events occur to knock them off track...

 

[Taadow]

When I go to school an hour north of Chicago in Indiana, I don’t feel a significant difference from home.

Oh, well this explains it all.

The only way you could be an hour north of Chicagoland and be in Indiana is if you
go to Notre Dame or some other dainty bougie-ass school where you might as well
be in the part of Michigan where they eat pizza with a knife and fork, so you ashamed
of the Country ways from whence you came. Got it.

 

[murksiderock]

@BrownBunny

I don't consider St Louis a southern city, but it is definitely one of those northern cities with southern undertones, just in the mannerisms and speech of the natives. My ex had me watching this shyt a few years ago, StLouisans definitely have a southern-effected drawl or "whisper", as that show was set in the city and featured locals in their element...

For the record, I think many Midwest cities are like this. KC is definitely southern-effected as well, and I've actually been to KC, it's clearly a Northern city but it ain't purely northern, either...

Cleveland the only Mid city I been to that didn't seem strongly influenced by the South...

 

[Black Steph Curry]

Wait?

DC say hurr/thurr too?lol

I thought that was only some INLAND upper south shyt. I ain't know coastal upper south talk like that too.

Ion know but i do know they'll say "murrland" real quick.

Of course Tennessee and Arkansas are the South, the dark red states are classified as the Deep South. Appalachian accent is the rednecks from West Virginia. Idiot. You failed along with them.

Damn i didn't know accents and regions were bounded by political state lines you realize tha Appalachians extend from central Alabama to New York and the Tennessee you labeled as "not as country as the Appalachians" eastern region is nothing but stereotypical moonshine drinking appalachia right?

Memphis is just an extension of the Mississippi delta culturally which many feel is the most culturally southern region in America, most Memphis brehs kinfolk moved from the delta and it's generally accepted for Memphis to be part of the deep south even though they're in Tennessee.

Nothing worse than prideful ignorance. Don't be one of those.

 

[KOohbt]

Wait?

DC say hurr/thurr too?lol

I thought that was only some INLAND upper south shyt. I ain't know coastal upper south talk like that too.

A lot of folks from D.C. family is from south east VA, and NC. Those D.C. accents come from there.

 

[invalid]

When I go to school an hour north of Chicago in Indiana,

You can't be an hour north of Chicago in Indiana. That place doesn't exist. You must've been in the back row of my middle school geography class.

How many maps did you crawl through to get this bullshyt?

This map is bullshyt for the simple fact that accents change once you leave out of the Chicagoland area.

You drive 1.5 hours south of Chicago in both Illinois or Indiana, you start to hear southern drawls.

Everybody knows this from Chicago and it's represented in all types of dialect maps.

St. Louis is 5 hours south of Chicago, you guys are going to absolutely have drawls.

 

[Supper]

A lot of folks from D.C. family is from south east VA, and NC. Those D.C. accents come from there.

Y'all say hurr/thurr?

 

[KOohbt]

Y'all say hurr/thurr?

Naw lol. Just saying that D.C. accents are watered down N.C. and VA accents. Never hear Thur or hurr. But if u say merry it come out Murray lol. Or turrible lmao. I'm from VA. My fam from NC and VA they lived in D.C. for some decades before coming back to VA.