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Originally posted by Not Bob
I have noticed that accents that are outside the norm for a given area seem to generate all sorts of presumptions and assumptions about intelligence (or lack thereof) and character (or lack thereof).
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When I lived in the South, I used to enjoy hearing the people there say that Yankees all sounded so stooooopid.
Being an uninflected Californian, I can say with equanimity that both the Brooklyn and the Birmingham sound equally fucktarded to the unprejudiced ear. However, I am favorably disposed toward the South because I've come to realize the famously sweet dispositions of Mayberry and Hooterville residents are largely true, but the sweet dispositions of the Sweathogs were an invention of television writers.
Also, when someone can show me a castmember of "Petticoat Junction" who converted to Scientology, I'll conclude the average stupidity of the regions is equal.
