Character Error

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While Vaughn Taylor, the actor who plays Hope Lange's character's father, is walking around his Brooklyn neighborhood showing Noah Ackerman the Plowman family's long connection to the area, Mr Plowman is speaking in what sounds to my ear as a southern accent. If his roots go very far back in Brooklyn shouldn't he sound more like a Brooklynite or a New Yorker, at the very least.