'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.
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.
Y’all funnin’ me!!
I am a college professor in Mississippi. No.