Free North Carolina – by Jeffrey Hardin
When Poppa was stationed at Quantico Va. and then Paris Island Beaufort SC while in the Marine Corp, they, the schools, tried to forced me and two other siblings to go to speech therapy classes because they claimed our deep NC accents couldn’t be understood!
Momma’s people the McBees, McBeths and Dedmon’s Scot-Irish who came out of the Appalachians, have a deep blend of Southern & Gaelic accents, and Poppas folks, have rich Southern Appalachian accents, they came from out of Tennessee and Smokey mountains, finally settling in York SC in the mid 60s…
Try as these schools might, they finally gave up on us, how could they possibly think to strip us of something that we heard day in and out in our homes, and when Pops was on tour, we spent most of our time with Grandparents in York SC and Kings Mountain!
What they actually were attempting to do was, to take the Southern out of us, and are to this day attempting the same!
Our NC accents today aren’t as thick as they once were, especially compared to the accents of our NC kin folk, we have been in SC now for 38 years now, so our NC accents have some what been watered down, but what tickles us is, when we are around Kin folk from back home, our accents pour out from within us as thick & sweet as bees honey…
Its always there within our hearts man, and ain’t nobody ever going to take that part of us away!
Its who we are, our accents and heritage define us, and the Yankee’s and Westerners will never ever understand how dear we hold onto such things!
Southerners are proud of their States and their fellow Southerners, and they are making a grave mistake threatening to take those traditions away from us!
We’ll kill for their trying it!
http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/09/southern-accents-pay-attention-yankees.html
Amen, Y’all. And I just loove it.
Really, yanks and westerners are your enemies now? Listen up Americans, that is what you are. Why do people feel the need to create new percieved enemies, when we already have many real ones that we have yet to deal with? Having served with people from all walks and education levels, all I care about is if you stand and fight or run like a coward. Stop trying to find ways to further divide this country or step aside son. There is no room for division, and how you choose to speak matters little at this point. We have real problems to address.
The only “Yankees” I can’t stand is a certain NY baseball team….
Right on! Stay Proud!
Sometimes I cant understand what some Southerners are saying myself.
I was listening to a program with an astronaut that had been to the moon and back and I had to shut of the radio because it was incomprehensible.
The man sounded like boomhour from king of the hill
I can’t understand the British.