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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s no such thing but there are definitely different flavors of Southern accent. Maybe you just heard one you associate with movies. You could have also just heard “fake southern accent” because not everyone from there has one so he may just be playing it up poorly. [/quote]

I understand when politicians do it on the stump in front of hicks but not on Bloomberg!

And he’s Jewish — that makes it even more interesting/wild.

I can’t think of anyone I know thats Jewish from southern states actually sounding southern! [/quote]

How stupid are you OP? Being Jewish is an ethno-religion. It doesn’t dictate your accent, geography does.  There are Mexican Jews who have that accent just as there would be southern Jews who have a southern accent. [/quote]

NP. I didn’t understand your last sentence, but there is indeed an accent associated with Jewish Americans. Don’t be dense. Most Jewish Americans immigrated to the NY area, and then spread out from there. I live in Los Angeles, which has a very high Jewish population- an interesting mixture of middle eastern/Persian/Israeli Jews and then European Ashkenazi Jews, and the later often have a NY accent.  Not always, I know plenty that don’t, but many do. [/quote]

New York Jews have the New York accent you are thinking of. This is the one you have probably been most exposed to in media but it is not THE Jewish accent. There are Jews from many other places who have THAT accent. For example, a Jewish man raised in Richmond having a southern accent. Why would every Jewish person on this planet have the New York accent you associate with Jews? The diaspora is vast. Just because you have only ever seen or interacted with Jews who have a new York accent doesn’t mean that’s “the Jewish accent” [/quote]

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