Do people from richmond sound antebellum?

[Anonymous]

I think if you hang out at the Country Club of Virginia you'll hear it a lot.

I don't know anyone under 75 who has this accent but I also don't hang out in Old Richmond spaces.

(I had a friend from Pennsylvania who had a Richmond accent, inexplicably . . . then she moved to England and came back with a British accent, so I guess that's just her thing.)

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https://www.wellesleycotillion.org/

Welcome to Boston.

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https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Teaching-Young-People-Lost-Social-Arts-the-Kent-16890524.php

Welcome to Litchfield.

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Anonymous wrote:Eric cantor was on Bloomberg this morning and dude sounded he was gonna say “I do declare” at any moment — such was the thickness of his antebellum accent.

I didn’t think people from Richmond sounded like that though but I’ve never visited.

Relatives in Richmond had their daughter's attend cottilion - can't think of much else that Screams southern

There is cotillion here in the DMV.

Lots of authentic south still in NOVA. Robert E Lee's boyhood home is in Old Town. You think that's the north?

Until recently athletic director for the fancy Potomac School was Rob Lee (and I think the new athletic center is named after him) is a direct descendant of General Lee. I think he's Robert E. Lee V, his great, great grandson.

Off-topic, I recall reading that Robert E. Lee had several daughters and he made them promise to never get married. So this descendant must be from one of his sons.

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Anonymous wrote:I think if you hang out at the Country Club of Virginia you'll hear it a lot.

I don't know anyone under 75 who has this accent but I also don't hang out in Old Richmond spaces.

(I had a friend from Pennsylvania who had a Richmond accent, inexplicably . . . then she moved to England and came back with a British accent, so I guess that's just her thing.)

I know several 40-somethings at CCV who still talk like this. Just go to an info event for St. Catherine's/St. Christopher's and you will hear it.

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Anonymous wrote:Eric cantor was on Bloomberg this morning and dude sounded he was gonna say “I do declare” at any moment — such was the thickness of his antebellum accent.

I didn’t think people from Richmond sounded like that though but I’ve never visited.

Relatives in Richmond had their daughter's attend cottilion - can't think of much else that Screams southern

There is cotillion here in the DMV.

Lots of authentic south still in NOVA. Robert E Lee's boyhood home is in Old Town. You think that's the north?

Until recently athletic director for the fancy Potomac School was Rob Lee (and I think the new athletic center is named after him) is a direct descendant of General Lee. I think he's Robert E. Lee V, his great, great grandson.

Off-topic, I recall reading that Robert E. Lee had several daughters and he made them promise to never get married. So this descendant must be from one of his sons.

Well yes. It’s his son’s son’s son’s son.

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Anonymous wrote:I was born and raised in Richmond (with a Virginian mother and North Carolinian father) and speak with an accent. So do my parents and my siblings, and many of my childhood friends. And I grew up in 23229.

Cantor doesn't have much of an accent IMO, I can't even hear it, if you're talking about this interview: https://youtu.be/ZVBkxjen1wM

People are big snobs, judging others by their accents and using pejorative terms against someone for where they were born or where they grew up.

I don’t hear a southern accent at all in this clip either.

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Anonymous wrote:I was born and raised in Richmond (with a Virginian mother and North Carolinian father) and speak with an accent. So do my parents and my siblings, and many of my childhood friends. And I grew up in 23229.

Cantor doesn't have much of an accent IMO, I can't even hear it, if you're talking about this interview: https://youtu.be/ZVBkxjen1wM

People are big snobs, judging others by their accents and using pejorative terms against someone for where they were born or where they grew up.

Are we supposed to recognize this?

If you’re from Richmond, then yes. Are you always this dense?

Girl, you’re from Henrico, not Richmond.

-signed former Fan rat

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Anonymous wrote:I was born and raised in Richmond (with a Virginian mother and North Carolinian father) and speak with an accent. So do my parents and my siblings, and many of my childhood friends. And I grew up in 23229.

Cantor doesn't have much of an accent IMO, I can't even hear it, if you're talking about this interview: https://youtu.be/ZVBkxjen1wM

People are big snobs, judging others by their accents and using pejorative terms against someone for where they were born or where they grew up.

I don’t hear a southern accent at all in this clip either.

Yeah, I've been watching a bunch of clips of him because of this thread and there's a (not that strong) accent in some and not much in others. Not unusual, but a weird person to prompt this kind of thread when there's much stronger Southern accents in politics.

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Anonymous wrote:I was born and raised in Richmond (with a Virginian mother and North Carolinian father) and speak with an accent. So do my parents and my siblings, and many of my childhood friends. And I grew up in 23229.

Cantor doesn't have much of an accent IMO, I can't even hear it, if you're talking about this interview: https://youtu.be/ZVBkxjen1wM

People are big snobs, judging others by their accents and using pejorative terms against someone for where they were born or where they grew up.

Are we supposed to recognize this?

If you’re from Richmond, then yes. Are you always this dense?

Girl, you’re from Henrico, not Richmond.

-signed former Fan rat

That’s great if you’re from the Fan but no one calls 23229 Henrico unless they’re a transplant (and that’s ok).