It's a Southern Accent

I sure do love the sound of a Southern accent, especially compared to a sharp New England accent. One is just inviting, warm, friendly, while the other lashes out at you.

Of course, when the British colonized the states, I imagine that differences in regional accents didn’t really exist. However, in the more than 200 years since we broke off from Britain after the American Revolution, different regions of our country has received immigrants from different parts of the world - in particular, African slaves imported into the Southern states.

This Wikipedia Article on Southern American English does a good job of giving an overview of Southern American dialects in general. The article does a good job of highlighting that there are many sub-accents in the South, something that many folks often don’t realize.

Tom Petty and Johnny Cash say it best in Southern Accent.