Y’all, even our accents are getting political.
Research suggests conservative Southerners are more likely to keep their Southern drawls, while liberal Southerners are losing theirs.
https://theconversation.com/are-partisan-politics-even-changing-up-our-accents-they-just-might-be-yall-294125
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