Hearing Appalachia pronounced like Wallachia made me think of an Appalachian-accented Dracula, lol.

"Talkin' 'bout dang ol' Belmon' comin up in mah castle, kill all mah Medusa heads and mah mummy man, and whip up all mah candles. Grim Reapa try to stop 'em, but mah dang ol' son, Al-yoo-card done gone an' went traitor. Dey putta stake through mah heart, dern castle went boom."

Part of the issue with Cajun is there's also literally Cajun French too, and then there's Creole as well, neither of which are actually English so the influences are *strong*.

As a Southerner, I'm proud to say I could make it through a conversation with any of these people until the Cajun's go full French on me.

23:23 that is Taylor Swift but she was doing a skit for a show, that’s not her real accent

31:00 She was talking about how people would ask her to say stuff with her accent and they would laugh.

If you want more of a deep dive into American accents, I'd highly recommend a two-parter from Wired hosted by a professional accent coach, Erik Singer. He actually does each accent as he explains them, it's really cool.

7:29 Texas is 1.95 times the size of Germany, so you can almost squeeze two whole Germanies inside the state, though Germany has over twice the population of Texas lmao 😭

It's funny to notice how much foreigners like the southern accent. It's been abused in American media for over a century.

My dad was from Arkansas.  And HOL LEE SHITE, it was like a southern drawl, but heavier and thicker. I almost couldnt understand him, at least in person. Im from California, so i dont have the Arkey accent as my family called it. On the phone, could understand perfectly. But in person, it was like a foreign language to me lol

Always looking forward to your videos ❤

18:58 I'm from Kentucky and I can confirm we throw on the 'er' for tomater, though potato get truncated on both ends to become tater and that's how you get tater tots.

As a Canadian, I could understand all of these accents easily.

If you want to learn some history from this channel I suggest his vid about the “Navajo Code Talkers” (pronounced as Na-Va-Ho), during WW2 the American Marines recruited the Native Americans called Navajo to use their language as a natural encryption against the Japanese and was never broken. If you do decide to watch it he actually shows some clips of the Code Talkers repeating some of the messages they sent and translating it twice so anyone can understand. Hollywood made a movie about them years ago called “Windtalkers”.

5:57 all of the accents have accents. In the first category, the general accents, were Maryland/Baltimore, Pacific Northwest/West Midwest, and Northern Appalachian/Atlantic respectively.

My neighbor growing up was from West Virginia, so I can catch most of the Appalachia accent

Henyas souther accent is perfect

31:37 I'm pretty sure he's talking about being a brake man on a train, he put the brake on a little bit when they were trying to climb a hill and the guy in charge yelled at him, told him to gtfo and then yelled for someone to take the brakes off. Then something about having to leave at 4pm to get to town. Maybe he got kicked off the train.

Where I come from, everyone comes with two accents at birth, it's like a species trait in DnD.
You have the General American, and that's what we typically use. But we also have a Southern (Southeastern) Accent, that we can switch to whenever.

You should react to Texas-German

I moved to West Virginia and yes if you go down into the wrong Holler (valley) you hear some thick accents