Lower taxes, gentler winters, and more affordable housing are drawing newcomers, often Midwesterners, to the South, changing ...

Americans consider the Southern accent to be the friendliest in the country, according to a new study. More than one in three people find the Southern twang — found in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, ...

Bid farewell to the Southern twang. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But Georgians are high-tailing away from that grits-and-gravy drawl faster than a scalded dog. A collaborative study between ...

Let's talk about accents for a moment. RALPH BRABHAM: OK. I'm Ralph Brabham, and I'm talking with my mom. JANE BRABHAM: I'm Jane Brabham, and I was born in Greensboro, N.C. R BRABHAM: So I grew up in ...

It seems like San Antonians have a puro way with words. Chicano accents ranked in the top half of America’s most attractive and desirable in 2023, according to a study from online language learning ...

Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine's visits to New York City relatives included being the star of an impromptu novelty show: Her cousin invited over friends and charged 25 ...

One popular theory dates back to the American Civil War. Before the Civil War, the South did not have nearly as much linguistic variation as it does today. Back then, the Southern accent was heavily ...