In regards to southern accents, there's a reason that southerners make-up the largest percentage (can't remember where I saw this, though) of students in accent

In regards to southern accents, there's a reason that southerners make-up the largest percentage (can't remember where I saw this, though) of students in accent reduction classes. And there's some studies on this form of discrimination. http://sites.middlebury.edu/lngt101fall2015/files/2015/11/article-on-dialect-influence-among-college-students.pdf http://sites.middlebury.edu/lngt101fall2015/files/2015/11/ar... https://web.stanford.edu/group/journal/cgi-bin/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Phillips_SocSci_2010.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/group/journal/cgi-bin/wordpress/wp-...