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?
That’s very much a midwestern accent, not Deep South.
I grew up in the Midwest , that’s not how we sound , sorry.
I grew up in the Midwest (Oklahoma) and this is how everybody sounded.
The “Midwest” encompasses a very large cultural range in the US.
Oklahoma is not the Midwest lol
I spent 30 years in the Carolinas, that’s not how we sound either. It’s not a southern accent. I’ve also studied accents in college. Maybe it’s not a full on Fargo style midwest, but on the spectrum it’s closer to mw than south.
Imagine different people sound differently. Weird concept
The Midwest is a big place made up of a dozen states. People from Minnesota sound different than people from Illinois. There are several distinct accents and the Kansas accent is one of them. I would expect an Ohioan and a Kansan to sound different, so if living in one state in the Midwest is your only frame of reference then I can understand why you think they all sound like that. I am also from the Midwest and I can tell you that if you drive for a few hours in any direction the people start to sound different, and there are different accents in cities than there are in rural areas
I grew up in minnesota, lived in illinois for 8 years and moved back to minnesota. That 10000 a midwestern accent, its just what we sound like to most people. Chicagoland illinois its more of a fake nyc accent mixed with midwestern since chicago is in a losing competition with nyc , springfield its real close to Teds.
Minnesota we sound like a combo of ted and Marge from from Fargo dialed back. Unless you are up around the boundary waters than its fake canada. No humans live in ND or SD so i guess maybe they would sound different. Wisconsin is fat minnesota. Iowa is corn kansas.
I’m from NY. I personally don’t think I have a NY accent. Everyone I meet outside of NY says I have a NY accent.
When you’re in it, it’s hard to realize it.
As you said in your post, Jason himself grew up in the Midwest, so he has a Midwestern accent too. Just because it’s not what you want it to be doesn’t mean it isn’t the right accent. If you think Ted sounds Southern you might need to get your ears checked.
Jason Sudeikis also spent a lot of his childhood in the Midwest after moving to Overland Park as a kid. Think he’s got a good understanding of how midwesterners sound.
Where in the Midwest? I’m from MN and one around here sounds like that.
Ok - from UP Michigan but my Dad’s from OKC so I get you. In Minn, Wisc, and Northern MI, we don’t have a midwestern accent. We have a Northern accent, and I’m told that’s how God talks. Midwestern for Ted Lasso seems about right, MI Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has a classic midwestern (Lower Michigan) accent. Ted’s is a combo midwestern with Western (my Dad’s dialect - not Southern). Basically an OKC accent but spoken slightly faster.
Dude I didn’t downvote you, I’m from Iowa and he sounds southern to me.
My relatives from Kansas do not sound like that but they are more in the Wichita area and far away from Missouri (maybe a Missouri thing, since Kansas City is in both?).
KC, St Louis, NE Oklahoma, some parts of Arkansas. That area has a weird blend of Midwestern and southern that sounds like Ted. (His is obviously exaggerated for TV).
I grew up an hour NW of St Louis and now live the next school district over from where Jason Sudeikis grew up in KC (and my wife went to the same school district as him.
You won’t hear that accent anywhere in St Louis or KC unless it’s someone not from here or cosplaying a southern accent.
I love how everyone who actually lives in bigger cities in Kansas - you know, like Ted’s character AND the actor himself - gets downvoted for saying, “hey, we literally don’t sound like that”. Meanwhile, people who are like “oh I traveled to Kansas before”, or “I have family there” can INSIST that we sound like that and get upvoted. Make it make sense 🫠
The Reddit hivemind has spoken- we don’t know what we sound like where we actually live.
Apparently not lol
I live in St Louis and we do not sound like that.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted you’re 100% right. I mean, sure there are SOME people who sound like that, but there are also people with a British accent or Indian accent
Okay? I live in Dallas and most people here don’t have the exaggerated drawls that you’ll hear if you go to the country, or some of the smaller East Texas cities. Doesn’t mean they don’t exist or aren’t fairly common in those areas
No one said it was “Deep South “
Out of all the comments telling you you’re wrong, this is the one you respond to?
No wonder you’re getting downvoted.