There are a few places in and near Tidewater where this dialect is at least as common as it is on Ocracoke. There are even many pockets of it (and very similar

There are a few places in and near Tidewater where this dialect is at least as common as it is on Ocracoke. There are even many pockets of it (and very similar dialects) inland as far as the Blue Ridge if you visit the small towns, know where to look, and figure out where the older generation comes to drink coffee and jaw in the morning. I lived in Charlottesville for five years, and the native dialects of Virginia fascinated me. I grew up in Arkansas and to my ears, residents of the Shenandoah Valley from West Virginia to Tennessee almost don't have an accent at all. Twenty miles east of there in the rural areas, and it's an entirely different sound - almost Bostonian in some ways. Further east, and you start hearing a hint of the aristocratic Southern accent (think "Rhett Butler"), especially between Goochland and the Rappahannock. Keep going and it fades into what the article calls "Hoi Toid".