After living in the south for the last 15 years, I’ve heard them all. His lame idiotic idea of a generic “southern” accent is atrocious. Unless an actor has at least lived in the southern part of the United States, they really can’t pull it off. Southern accents and the way people pronounce certain words changes from state to state. Georgia is clearly different from Louisiana, Texas or Mississippi. They tend to add a syllable to the end of a word and some in the middle. And, not every southern accent is a slow drawl. When I first moved down south, I couldn’t understand what they were saying because they had this rapid fire way of speaking. When I said, I’m sorry can you say that again and they would, I could only pick up a word here or there. It became, what’s the matter honey, don’t you speak English? I would say anyone born after WWII talks very fast and are very animated when they talk. The older adults were the people who attended to talk with a slow drawl. Since it’s clear he was born after WWII, he doesn’t have the fast way of speaking down either.
So why the Ray Fiske accent?
I think because "Hollywood" has the idea that southerner are more approachable, less defensive then say a person from NYC, Bronx or Brooklyn accents. Unless you tick off a southern woman, then they will give you a piece of their mind.
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