>>Good article. The Southern accent grates me more than others. > >Maybe it's because there are SO many films where the main protagonist is picked on/stalked/murdered by/bullied/forced into a fight with/has to endure drunken lewdness by/ etc. some idiot red-neck(s) with a penchant for violence and hatred and jealousy for anyone "not from round these parts", so you tend to stereotype the accent in the head as belonging to a bad-guy? Then in the Westerns, all the mealy-mouthed, cowardly, ne'er-do-well, evil scum tend to have that accent to. Usally they're sweaty, unshaven, greasy, smelly and shifty too.
Actually no. Just grates me. If I had to stereotype I'd go for what Tracy said (correctly) that it stereotypes them as dumb, not as criminals/lowlifes.
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