Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) is from KC and people from Kansas speak in a Midwest accent. I don’t get it. I grew up in STL and lived in KC for 3 years. We don’t have southern accents. I’m I missing something?
Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) is from KC and people from Kansas speak in a Midwest accent. I don’t get it. I grew up in STL and lived in KC for 3 years. We don’t have southern accents. I’m I missing something?
I am from the South, Ted’s accent doesn’t sound Southern at all to me. I have spent a good bit of time in KC and he sounds a lot like people I know there to me.
Grew up and live in KC- Ted’s accent is much more mid to south rural Missouri/middle rural Kansas than KC. If you met people here with that accent, I can almost guarantee they moved to “the big city” from somewhere smaller.
KC’s accent is very neutral- look at Paul Rudd, Rob Riggle, Heidi Gardner, or David Dastmalchian.
A better famous parallel might be Walt Disney, who grew up in rural Missouri with a twang before coming to KC as a kid.