>>1369338Unfortunately, even in the Southern US, children raised in the suburbs/exurbs in most of the major cities over the last 20-30 years have, at best, a slight accent. Those places are are where the majority of the child population is, not the urban core, and not the smaller cities/towns. Most will graduate highschool with an accent that is closer to the American Cosmopolitan Monoculture than to any regional accent. The same is true for the Midwest and Northeast. More suburban kids from Western New York, or Ohio, or wherever, are going to speak with a slightly-regionally-inflected version of the American Cosmopolitan accent than a "thick" regional accent, the way they might if they grew up without cable TV, never mind the Internet.'
With fewer folks growing up with it, there's that much lower of a chance of it showing up in a 'tuber. Let us know if you find one, though.
t. Texan without a Texan accent, who would appreciate a little twang or drawl.
