# Is the Southern accent dying out among the young?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-southern-accent-dying-out-among-the-young/727873>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 14, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-southern-accent-dying-out-among-the-young/727873 "2015-08-14T21:42:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-southern-accent-dying-out-among-the-young/727873/21 "2023-10-12T16:45:04Z")

</div>

'Ah ‘spose it matters whether we’re fixin’ t’ask jan-you-wine honest folks in small towns or folks in them that big cities fulla dad burn carpetbaggers.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-southern-accent-dying-out-among-the-young/727873/22 "2023-10-12T17:11:56Z")

</div>

Part of this may be that the regional accents are going strong where they originate, but with the global nature of communications young Southerners may be code-switching to a more “universal” register of U.S. English when outside of the homelands of their native accent (or communicating with those outside those areas).

I know my wife’s Dallas drawl is completely extinguished by more than 3 decades north of there, but will reappear in hours if we’re down there.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-southern-accent-dying-out-among-the-young/727873/23 "2023-10-12T17:45:36Z")

</div>

Y’all funnin’ me!!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-southern-accent-dying-out-among-the-young/727873/24 "2023-10-12T18:07:01Z")

</div>

I am a college professor in Mississippi. No.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-southern-accent-dying-out-among-the-young/727873.md?page=1)