Where do national (?) accents come from?

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So I understand that people from different countries will speak English differently. But how does it work with north / south of a country? Or even districts – like Brooklyn accent?

In my country we don’t have accents. Everyone speaks the same. How come in English people from Yorkshire speak different than people from London?

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It’s form of evolution, back in the day the working class drank a lot, was very lazy with speech, etc, whereas the higher members of society made an effort to speak clearer, there’s a hint of the common british in irish and there’s a hint of RP in any englishmen, i actually self-taught the really posh british accent and it comes to me naturally now

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