Topic of the Week: The Southern Drawl

Don't you love walking into a store or a restaurant and hearing someone say, "How y'all doin today?" That phrase makes me feel welcome compared to the New York phrase "how ya doin." The southern drawl is very pleasing and easy on the ears. People often make fun of the southern accent saying it makes people sound uneducated, which is not helped by Larry the Cable Guy. Our country was founded by the British and the language of the U.S. from the beginning was English. The strange thing is I am sure the early American's spoke with British accents. How can a dialect change from one way to another? Was it that these new Americans were rebels and they wanted to change how they spoke? Different regions in the country also have different dialects, like the New York, Ohio, and California accents. Areas in the south also have different dialects, New Orleans and Charleston are examples. The question I want to pose for this topic is why and how do you think the southern accent came about? Talk about your view of the southern accent and also other accents of different regions.