Dale Thorn
Don't you suppose that when some of the party-line-liberal (brainwashed) persons (esp. from the Northeast or the Bay Area) hear a person speaking in an authentic Southern "accent", that they often feel a twinge of fear, as though someone from the KKK or whatever has just entered their immediate surroundings? I know that sounds kind of silly, but people do have those knee-jerk reactions to certain visual and auditory clues, particularly when they've been bombarded by big media with all those stereotypical images over the years.
Americans in general are extremely xenophobic and react very negatively to anyone with a "foreign" accent. A few weeks ago I visited rural Massachussetts. The people there are extremely hostile even to Americans who don't speak with their particular regional accent. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps