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We've discussed both Black and White accents so I don't know what you mean by it's black accents being talked about.
As far as New Orleans accents being mistaken for New York/ Northeast accents, I totally hear it when it comes to White New Orleans. Not all but there's a ton of White New Orleans natives that have that "YAT" accent. But as far as Black New Orleans, the only group of people where I hear some similarities to a New York or Northeast accent are Creoles of color folks from Downtown. And I'm talking Creole people of color that come from a long line of Free people of color who married other Free people of color. The ones that can "pass" as something other than "Black". They're the ones I usually hear with some faint New York/ Northeast dialects and even then I still wouldn't mistake it for a Black New York accent. And even with that yes probably most Creole people in New Orleans today racially consider themselves Black but there's also a good amount who don't consider themselves Black.
With that said, I don't hear that with the majority of Black New Orleans natives. And I'm talking Black New Orleans who are clearly Black or primarily of African descent. That also includes Black downtown residents that are primarily of African descent. Even when they share neighborhoods with descendants of Creole people of Color from my experience I still don't hear a New York accent w/ them.
Also I don't go by Hollywood's version of southern accents considering I'm from the South, East Texas (Ark-La-Tex) to be exact. Traditional maybe was the wrong word to use, but there is a general southern accent that can be found to some degree all throughout the southern region. Of course there's variations of southern accents but there are similarities as well throughout the region.
You just admitted that older New Orleans accents can be mistaken for New York accents but now the New Orleans accent is consistently southern as a Memphis accent? Nobodies mistaken a Black or White Memphis accent for a New York one. It's southern throughout unlike New Orleans that has a variety of different accents that are unique to that region and can even be reminiscent of New York.
I worked with a woman from New Orleans born and raised and she had that NY sounding accent.
I worked with a woman from New Orleans born and raised and she had that NY sounding accent.
Was she Black? White? Creole?
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Originally Posted by Kaszilla
My goodness, it's common sense I meant Memphis is barely larger than Birmingham.
Even if it's BARELY larger it's still larger by almost 200,000 people. Btw, I'm not suggesting B'ham has a less dominant southern accent than Memphis. I'm simply saying Memphis is the larger city even if it's barely larger it's still the largest city/metro in the southern region where the southern accent is still dominant.
Even if it's BARELY larger it's still larger by almost 200,000 people. Btw, I'm not suggesting B'ham has a less dominant southern accent than Memphis. I'm simply saying Memphis is the larger city even if it's barely larger it's still the largest city/metro in the southern region where the southern accent is still dominant.
That's still debatable. The accents in the Nashville region seemed mostly southern to me.
Memphis population is about 400,00 more people and additionally the entire city proper of Birmingham can fit inside Memphis.
Are we talking about city or metro?
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