I’ve met plenty of people from Wichita (my wife lived there for several years) who speak with a similar accent to Ted.

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

I get it though. I have trouble picking out all the different English/Commonwealth accents sometimes, even though my understanding is that they’re easily distinguishable for people from the UK.

Bible Belt East Texas here, that is 1000% not a southern accent.

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