I am Tosk wrote:

> It always amazed me when I lived in the south (Northern Alabama,
> Tennessee) how the folks there could pretty much tell county to county
> where someone was from after listening to them for a minute or two...
>
> Scotty


Here in Louisiana, accents from the Southern part of the state (New
Orleans) don't sound anything like accents here in the Northern part of
the state. Drive a little further North into Arkansas and it changes again.

I've found some of the thickest Southern accents come from states that
are pretty far north, like Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, etc.

George L