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<blockquote data-quote="MyFriendKita" data-source="post: 617802" data-attributes="member: 4888"><p>I don't think this is new. I went to college in the South, and one of the pieces of advice we were given by the instructors was to lose our accents. This was 20 years ago, before these shows started airing. They said having a southern accent would make it more difficult to get a job, because people would think we weren't intelligent. And this point of view isn't limited to northerners regarding southerners. It also applies to big city dwellers and their opinion of residents of small towns, city dwellers vs. country dwellers, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MyFriendKita, post: 617802, member: 4888"] I don't think this is new. I went to college in the South, and one of the pieces of advice we were given by the instructors was to lose our accents. This was 20 years ago, before these shows started airing. They said having a southern accent would make it more difficult to get a job, because people would think we weren't intelligent. And this point of view isn't limited to northerners regarding southerners. It also applies to big city dwellers and their opinion of residents of small towns, city dwellers vs. country dwellers, etc. [/QUOTE]
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