Where did southern accents in the US come from?

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Where did southern accents in the US come from?

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Not a native speaker, but a linguistics graduate. I once read an article on this in The Atlantic or some other similar publication and, basically, that’s how British settlers used to enunciate back when they arrived in the New World.

Adding up interactions with other settlements or cultures through war or interventions, besides simple language evolutions and so on, contemporary American accents are just derivations of the most common British cadences of the 18th century.