What American accent are you? meme, yoinked from hvaharu
What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net
Neutral. Not Northern, Southern, or Western, just American. Your national American identity is more important to you than your local identity, because you don't really have a local identity to begin with.
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So I have no identity? LOL.
But really, it's spot-on, I think. My mother used to be in radio journalism, and had the "neutral" accent (despite being raised in southwest Missouri) - until she married my very Okie stepdad, anyway. She told me I had that neutral voice too, which apparently would have also made me well-suited for broadcast journalism. Though I've lived in Oklahoma for as long as I can remember, I've managed to avoid slipping into that stereotypical Okie drawl, drawing out vowels and adding "r"s to words. I don't particularly identify myself as an Okie, and it wouldn't break my heart to leave the state, so the "no local identity" bit has some truth too.