Is the Southern accent disappearing, or are young Southerners just learning when to use it? With the rise of social media and ...

One of the researchers who's been on the forefront of tracking the trend of the Southern accent's fade spoke to 11Alive's Dan ...

By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.

If you thought Reese Witherspoon’s Tennessee accent was spot-on as June Carter Cash in “Walk the Line,” you were right – she grew up in Nashville. Actors often work hard to lose Southern accents – ...

*In 2025, new research confirms what many Southerners have long suspected: the classic Southern accent is fading, especially in major cities like Atlanta, New Orleans, and Raleigh. Studies from the ...

State Capital in Jackson, Mississippi. Credit - chmeredith, CC SA 2.0. State Capital in Jackson, Mississippi. Credit - chmeredith, CC SA 2.0. The southern accent is slowly disappearing in parts of U.S ...

Nashville's part of a region called the southern dialect zone. While Tennessee has seen an influx of new residents from states like California and New York, that's not all it takes to shift an area's ...

These are just a few gasps I uttered after learning that the Southern accent was slowly disappearing. Bless those evildoers’ hearts; they don't understand that such a tragedy must not occur. Y’all can ...