2007-08-16 15:30:05 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
None as far as I am concerned. He had a great speaking voice with a very compassionate tone and I think the accent was an important part of it. He still does by the way. Pax- C
2007-08-16 15:34:31 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As another poster has indicated, some people equate a Southern accent with a lack of intelligence. As more Presidents have come from different sections of the United States, however, including the South and Southwest, perhaps everyone has come to realize that Southerners like their counterparts elsewhere have varying degrees of intellect, street smarts, and education.
As I recall, most Americans felt that Jimmy Carter had very good intentions, but he lacked the charisma that Ronald Reagan showed. BTW, most voters from Texas see through George W. Bush as a rhinestone cowboy and not the geniune article.
2007-08-16 23:31:19 · answer #2 · answered by Ellie Evans-Thyme 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many people do equate a southern accent with intellect. For some reason people with a southern accent are depicted as uneducated or a hillbilly. Jimmy Carter was fought in WWII and was a graduate from the Naval Academy and is actually one of our smartest presidents, I.Q wise.
2007-08-16 23:08:10 · answer #3 · answered by Jackie Oh! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At least Carter's accent is genuine. GW Bush's accent is fake. He talks one way to southerners and another way to the rest of us. Don't believe me? Listen to any of the campaign speeches he made in the South, and then to a State of the Union or something like that.
Carter was the last 'honest' president.
2007-08-16 23:06:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. Thats its. It was his accent.
Here I thought he was unpopular because of the double-digit inflation during his administration, the unemployment rate that was 4 times higher than what we have today, the spitting on our sovereignty by the hostage takers in Iran, and the complete ineffectuality of our efforts to retrieve them.
Ans all this time, it was his accent that made us hate him...
2007-08-16 22:37:15 · answer #5 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None, if anything it made him more popular, since southerners seem to only want to vote for southerners.
2007-08-16 22:36:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same as Bill Clinton's southern drawl - none.
2007-08-16 22:36:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The part where interest rates were 21%!
2007-08-16 22:33:27 · answer #8 · answered by James@hbpl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Less than his political naivete and ineptitude.
2007-08-16 22:35:48 · answer #9 · answered by Nannie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋