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Rural South?

posted 10 years ago by Esmollin
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If this is the rural South, why does the storekeeper have a Vermont accent like the Pepperidge Farm guy?

It's quite possible that he grew up in New England, then moved to Georgia after his speech patterns had already been established. Movement between states is legal.