Yarbrough: In defense of a Southern accent, y’all

Well, swat my hind with a melon rind! I just found out why I’m so slowwitted and eat my peas with a butter knife. It’s my Southern accent, y’all. I just read a survey that those of us who live down here below the Mason-You-Know-Who line is thought by some who live where it snows 10 months a year and all their buildings are rusted, to be less intelligent because of our slow way of talking....

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