eli5: How does the U.S. have so many different regional accents?
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[This video gets into it a bit.](https://youtu.be/H1KP4ztKK0A)
Basically, it comes down to settlement patterns. You have to realize as well that in the time before mass media the only people you would hear speak were from your local geographic region. Therefore what you had was a big echo chamber where differences in pronunciation got magnified.
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