I'm not Southern at all but ever since hearing that NPR feature on horrible fake Southern accents (which I can't find now), it's like I'm allergic to them. YOU ALL DON'T SOUND SOUTHERN. YOU SOUND LIKE YOU'RE IMITATING WOODY HARRELSON, WHO IS FROM MOTHERFUCKING TEXAS. AND IN THIS MOVIE HE SOUNDS LIKE FOGHORN LEGHORN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14NeD4UMU9M ahem

(Let us not even talk about Pentecostal preacher accents, which I DO know and the only only accurate rendition I have ever heard is Robert Duvall in The Apostle - clip. I remember sitting through Great Balls of Fire for some reason* in utter dismay at Quaid and Baldwin's accents.)


*probably in pre-internet days it was on cable and I was mildly curious and bored, which is how I have seen other regrettable films