accents?

Do you think accents play a role in politics?
Did you watch the governor race on cnn?
If so, what did you think of her accent over rick soctt's?
just in case you missed it!
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I have read comments about people thinking she wasn't too intelligent. I just want to know what other people think.

 

I only listened for the 1st 3 mins of the debate and she sound southern, that's about it.

But to answer your question, does accent play a role in politics? Hell fucken yes. Accents play role in politics, journalism, teaching, law, entertainment, medicine or any other job. You're sized in America by a lot of things and accent is one of them.
Why do you think a lot of ppl label Obama as super smart from the get go at the democratic convention of 2004 speech, coz of the way he commanded the english language and the way he sounded.

 

Rick Barry once bad mouthed the basketball team he played for (Virginia Squires) by saying that he didn't want his kids to grow up speaking with a Southern accent.

As a Northerner, I have decidedly mixed views of the Southern accent. I find it charming when spoken by some women, but also have a degree of prejudice in relation to how smart it makes people sound.

 

True that. I was born and raised in the south and have lived in the Northwest for the last twenty years or so and don't really have much of a southern accent anymore, but there are times when the accent comes out, especially when at work and I'm getting P.Oed about something that has gone wrong, some of my co-workers who didn't know I was originally from the south look at me all bugg-eye and crazy like "Since when this mother fucker get a country accent?" My best friend at work playfully fucks with me about it every now and again. "What's that ? You're fixin' ta kick my ass you say? Don't you mean you are about to kick my ass?"

 

Man I feel ya, I was born in Chicago, but moved to Mobile,Alabama when I was 3. I Stayed down there till I was 17, then I moved back up to Illinois and stayed 2 years then moved back to bama, then moved back to Illinois within the last year. When Im in the south, people think Im from the North and when Im in the north, people think Im from the south. My accent changes on me, without me trying to do it. My southern accent comes out when I say certain words, when I get excited, or when Im around other southerners after awhile. Some of my friends from the south give me shit for talking like a "yankee" and some of my friends from the north give me shit for talking like a "country bumpkin". The southern accent can be a advantage at times and at others a disadvantage, but thats basically the same thing that applies to everybody regardless of accent.