# Is a southern accent sexy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 10, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-southern-accent-sexy/788583 "2017-06-10T11:24:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-southern-accent-sexy/788583/41 "2017-06-11T17:05:21Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Other way around. Pop is not a soda. It’s one of the ingredients of a soda, but it’s not even the main ingredient. That would be ice cream. A soda also requires whipped cream and syrup, and optionally a cherry. Calling a glass of pop a soda is like calling a bowl of chocolate syrup a banana split. [Millions of people are apparently wrong, then.](http://discovermagazine.com/galleries/2013/june/regional-us-language-dialect) ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-southern-accent-sexy/788583/42 "2017-06-11T22:14:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Most Southerners don’t differentiate “pen” and “pin” either. They pronounce it that way in (parts of) New Zealand; maybe Australia, too. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-southern-accent-sexy/788583/43 "2017-06-12T14:14:36Z")
I can only comment on my personal experience. When dating women outside of the south, my Texas accent almost never failed. It was warmly welcomed in the UK and other parts of Europe. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-southern-accent-sexy/788583/44 "2017-06-12T14:19:12Z")
Not even a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-southern-accent-sexy/788583/45 "2017-06-12T14:37:35Z")
I was going to say hell to the no but there’s one exception I can think of. Peter Sarsgaard plays a southern lawyer in the film _The Skeleton Key_ and for some reason I find it very sexy. Aside from that, I’d rather hear US accents that are as close to “neutral” as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-southern-accent-sexy/788583/46 "2017-06-12T14:54:18Z")
Sexy on Daisy Duke, perhaps. But for the majority of average folk, a southern accent generally impresses me as sounding ignorant. Doesn’t EVERYONE have an accent? ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-southern-accent-sexy/788583/47 "2017-06-12T17:09:44Z")
I find it strange that people find accents sexy or not sexy. I find \*people \*sexy or not sexy and the right person can make any accent sound hot. Or not. Is a German accent sexy? Listen to Angela Merkel and then Marlene Dietrich, for example, and tell me your conclusion. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-southern-accent-sexy/788583/48 "2017-06-12T17:10:40Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Sexy on Daisy Duke, perhaps. But for the majority of average folk, a southern accent generally impresses me as sounding ignorant. The werd is “Ignernt”, thank yew. As a southerner by birth and by raising, I appreciate a good, non-redneck southern accent. Southern coastal is my favorite, very refined and laid back. As much as I hate a “Joisey” accent I’ll take it any day over a nasally Wisconsin accent. Ugh ::shudders::. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-southern-accent-sexy/788583/49 "2017-06-12T17:48:25Z")
Southern accents don’t do it for me. My mean grandma was from Alabama and she sounded just like Karl Childers from _Sling Blade_. I’ll always associate a southern accent with her, as well as with Paula Deen, as mentioned upthread. Accents I _do_ like are Scottish, posh English, and French. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-southern-accent-sexy/788583/50 "2017-06-12T17:59:34Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > I find it strange that people find accents sexy or not sexy. I find \*people \*sexy or not sexy and the right person can make any accent sound hot. Or not. Is a German accent sexy? Listen to Angela Merkel and then Marlene Dietrich, for example, and tell me your conclusion. Simple enough, neither of them sound sexy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-southern-accent-sexy/788583.md?page=2)