I think is it but I am biased since I grew up here in NC. I’m a guy and I am talking about women’s accents. These days with so many transplants there are not many people with southern accents left around here. Women can comment on this too.
On the other hand a woman with a NY/NJ accent is a big dislike for me. And I lived for a few years as a kid in NJ before I moved to NC.
A friend of mine from NJ told me he thought his GF talked with a more southern accent when they were alone.
I’m also in NC and I do find the accent sexy. The longer I’ve lived here, the more I’ve come to dislike some other regional accents. When watching a show or movie, I’ll frequently comment to my wife about how irritating I would find a particular character’s voice to be if I had to spend time with him/her. It would be a deal-breaker for me if I were dating.
Some surveys put at as one of the sexiest accents in the world at least for females. Irish, french and Italian are other popular choices. The problem is that it can be greatly overdone. An educated Southern Belle accent is great but a trailer trash accent not so much. I grew up in the Deep South with a strong Southern accent that faded unintentionally over time but I used to get compliments on mine even as a male.
I have lived in New England for many years and, while many New Englanders are nice, some of their accents will make your hair curl. I always say it is the most effective birth control in the world. The one thing I am strict about was raising my daughters in an area where standard rather than Boston English is spoken. It worked but I still have to correct them sometimes. I am not having any Bostonian, Brooklynite or Jersey Shore talk in my house. Save that for the night clubs and reality shows.
Some people claim that all accents are equally beautiful once you are truly familiar with them. That is complete bullshit. French is much prettier than Portuguese for example even though they are both romance languages. Valley girl speak makes anyone sound like a retard. Educated Southern accents are the prettiest that exist in the U.S. followed by the generic Midwestern “news-speak”.
While we are discussing regional accents, I will add that I can barely stand being around women who speak like a little girl…high, nasal, whining speech. (To be fair, I can’t stand “little boy” speech patterns, either.) Unfortunately, a lot of actors/actresses and newscasters use this voice. It makes me feel like my younger sister is begging for something, or explaining why she needs a ride somewhere.
Yes the Fran Drescher accent she used on the Nanny is very bad.
From Time magazine: Hey, Y’all: Southern Accents Voted Most Attractive
I’ve never heard anyone, from any region or speaking any language, say this.
To the OP’s question, I’m going with “no.” I might’ve found Southern accents cute and attractive if we hadn’t moved to the South, but living around Southerners most of my life has made a drawl neutral at best. I’m just thankful I was old enough not to develop one. My younger brother was less fortunate.
I’m pretty sure I don’t have one. I mean, I hope. Is there a drawl-detection app for iOS?
I think a point of confusion is that sometimes in TV or movies there’s someone with a really sexy voice. Who also has a Southern accent. So a Southern accent is sexy, right?
No.
The accent is immaterial. A sexy voice is a sexy voice, regardless of accent.
Yeah, southern accents are sexy. A lot of accents are sexy.
Irish and British are probably my favorite. Boston too. Ever seen Goodwill Hunting?
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I spent enough time living in the Bible Belt that a Southern accent (particularly the uneducated "redneck"variety) is normally a serious turnoff.
I dropped my accent pretty quickly upon moving to New England. Being female in tech is difficult; being under-40 (at the time), female, cute, and with a southern accent in tech is extra pain in the ass. I have a neutral east coast accent normally. However, when I hang out with the paternal family back home, not one of us sounds like we have any education…or shoes. 
(It’s a family joke; we all know we sound like rednecks after a couple of drinks.)
I also feel similar to **Shagnasty **about Boston accents, though they frequently make me giggle.
Because I have a longtime good friend with a Down East accent, I don’t find that unattractive. Objectively, it’s not an attractive accent, I don’t think, so it’s down to the person associated with it. So YMMV.
Hell yeah!
My ex-gf is from Arkansas and had quite the Southern accent, and the way she spoke was perhaps the #1 thing that I liked about her. Now, it wasn’t just the accent, she was positively bursting with charm, and she also spoke in such an organized, narrative way it was kind of like listening to a spontaneous Southern novel, but yes. Yes. YES!
I think a hint of a southern accent is way sexy. Anything more than that, I start to get images of Paula Deen in my head. And that ain’t sexy.
I can’t stand Southern accents. Educated or not makes no real difference to me, they all sound equally awful.
I’m from New York, so I can tell a New Jersey accent from an Park Avenue accent, from a Lower east side, from a Harlem, from a Bronx-Brooklyn, etc. I mean, granted, people move around so much that you don’t hear the distinctions in young people as much, but there’s definitely Bronx-Brooklyn/Manhattan/NJ distinctions. I don’t care for the NJ accent as much-- and of course, I’m talking about the minority NJ that is part of the GMA, not all the rest of NJ. Most of NJ sounds more like Philadelphia than Brooklyn.
Anyway, I really love a New York accent. I’ve actually ended up living for more years in Indiana than in New York, but I still like a hometown accent.
Most people in Indiana have the generic mid-West newscaster accent, but some people have this slightly Southern Hoosier dialect that is so grating, I can’t even describe it. They bite down on their vowels like they are afraid to open their mouths all the way. They say “ink pen,” because they pronounce “pen” and “pin” the same, so they have to differentiate. Drives me nuts.
Yeah. She’s kinda the anti-sexy.
Not all southern accents are the same.
Virginians have a funny way of saying things to my Georgian ear. Like, they don’t say “momma”. They say “mumma”. I don’t like that. And the Tidewater accent is its own separate thing. I totally dig the accent, but it doesn’t sound “southern” to me.
On the other hand, I don’t hear [“like 'at”](Urban Dictionary: like% 20%27at) up here like I used to hear in Georgia. And I like that. 
Southern accents are not sexy at all.
Italian & French accents are very sexy but I don’t think any US accent is sexy.
Most Southerners don’t differentiate “pen” and “pin” either.
The only thing about Indiana speech that I hate is the use of the word “pop” instead of “soda”. When I hear “pop”, I get an urge to pop someone in the face. (And it’s doubly worse when the “pop” turns out to be Pepsi, not Coke).
To my ear, once you start approaching Chicagoland, the midwestern dialect gets more annoying. “Closet” becomes “clah-set”. “Doll baby” becomes “dow baby”. Once you’re in Michigan, you start speaking like those people in “Making of a Murder” and you lose the right to make fun of any other dialect.
Accents can be sexy, southern accents can be sexy.
That said, I’ve always thought that its the woman behind the voice who makes them sexy. There’s a mind/heart behind that voice somewhere… and sometimes it can make your inner voice say “wow”.
One time I worked with a really hot girl with a strange northern accent.
Another guy said she needed a voice transplant. 
Accents and voices in general are a huge deal to me. I have had the experience of thinking someone was attractive until they started talking and all of that immediately went away. I don’t know where some of these women went to finishing school but they need to ask for their money back.