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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From different groups mixing over generations. The Cajun accent for instance came from the expulsion of the French from Eastern Canada. The Acadians as they are known settled in the south after being forced out of Canada (among a lot of other places) and brought a French dialect that evolved into what you hear now. Even the word Cajun came from the word Acadian. With a French accent, ‘Acadian’ becomes ‘A Cajun’!

*Edit – To be clearer the Acadians didn’t leave Canada. They were rounded up and forcibly removed by the British. There’s a lot of terrible accounts of families being purposely separated and sent around the world.