As someone from that region and now living in the south, his accent struck me more “rural western/southwestern” than southern. More Colorado, west Texas, western Oklahoma, New Mexico than a quintessential Midwestern accent. My mother and grandmother have Midwestern accents, but Ted sounds very much like my father’s side of the family.
As someone from that region and now living in the south, his accent struck me more “rural western/southwestern” than southern. More Colorado, west Texas, western Oklahoma, New Mexico than a quintessential Midwestern accent. My mother and grandmother have Midwestern accents, but Ted sounds very much like my father’s side of the family.