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What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
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Yeah. So, totally not what I expected, seeing as how I've lived in Texas my entire life and my mother is from Mississippi/Louisiana. What I'm figuring is that my accent comes from a two-fold influence - 1) I live in Austin, which is a fairly metropolitan area, so we don't have as much of a Texas accent as the outlying areas, and 2) my mother worked very hard in her younger years to get rid of the southern Louisiana accent she did have (like my grandmother's, which if you want a comparison, was like a much nicer version of Rue McLanahan's in Golden Girls.) so she does have that TV/radio accent that I'm sure I picked up when learning to talk from her. What's funny is that when I'm trying to get someone to do something, like when working customer service (especialy on the phone), I end up slipping into my mother's/grandmother's southern accent. And when I'm pissed off, I start talking in more of a Texas twang.

Oh, the oddities of verbal culture.

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