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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.

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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?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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!

There aren’t that many Jewish people down there! That’s something I had to learn. Growing up in Bethesda really warped my perception. But the ones that are there have an accent because why wouldn’t they?

No Jewish person I know from the south (Georgia and North Carolina) actually sounds southern.

Well that’s odd. I know plenty of Jews from Georgia who absolutely sound southern. Why wouldn’t they?

Can confirm. I live in Georgia and my Jewish friends here look and sound southern.

I am not familiar enough with accents from various time periods to weigh in on whether their particular southern lilt harkens back to the antebellum era.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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!

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.

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.

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”

Man you are dumb.

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.

You are screaming your ignorance. Obviously, you have no idea what antebellum means, do you? Too bad that you didn't use your dictionary for it's intended purpose as opposed to using it as a doorstop.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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!

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.

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.

My god you are dense. In the course of our history most immigrants from EVERYWHERE arrived to the New York area (Ellis Island, duh) and spread out from there. It’s not like all Italians; Irish, Germans etc all over the country have New York accents.

There is no universal Jewish accent in the US, and it’s incredibly racist to suggest that there is.

Anonymous wrote:Its the Old Virginia accent. Totally different from the rest of the south. I've heard it in people from Charlottesville as well as Richmond. Its lovely and so unique. The Tidewater/Northern Neck accent is another unique one!

People from Charlottesville have a different accent they say about like aboot

All I know about Richmond is that it is somehow always POURING when I need to drive through it. Why is it so narrow? Why is it so bendy? I do like that clock thing by the river.

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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

Start screaming, dear.
So many states with even Junior Cotillions!
https://nljc.com/

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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!

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.

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.

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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?

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 know, you know. Jews from Sleepy Hollows represent! or, should I say, ray-pru-sent.

Delete this thread.

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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

I grew up in Bethesda and went to cotillion in the 90s.