how far up north will you find people with southern accents?

Question

i have met people from pennsylvania with southern accents and found that kind of unusual. then again its believeable that people from ohio and kansas have southern accents

Answer 1

You can't call it southern, when they're in the north.

Call it Country.

It's a country accent. Like farm town, country town, accent.

Answer 2

Well, I live in Maryland, which is the borderline between the Mid-atlantic and the South. People in MD have a very, very slight southern accent and some southern practices. So from that I'm guessing it doesn't go very far since we're at the borderline.

Answer 3

I lived in Peterborough, Ontario and went to school with a guy from Thunder Bay, Ontario and he had a southern accent. His favourite show is The Dukes Of Hazard.

Answer 4

There are lots of people in Michigan with southern accents, in fact the term used is "northern hillbilly's". When I lived there two of the towns I lived in, Belleville & Ypsilanti, were known half jokingly as Bellebama & Ypsitucky. During & after WW2 many people from the south moved to Michigan to grab the factory jobs that were opening up.

Answer 5

I grew up partly in Delaware, and we did not consider ourselves Southern. Most people I knew from Maryland didn't either, though I've now heard of some who did. Virginians definitely sounded Southern to me. So I make the line between Maryland and Virginia. YMMV.

Answer 6

I live in Canada and I hear southern accent up here. I think that it just people who move here though