Perhaps, but don't take the claim too far. From the article: "Various claims about the accents of the Appalachian Mountains, the Outer Banks, the Tidewater reg

Perhaps, but don't take the claim too far. From the article: "Various claims about the accents of the Appalachian Mountains, the Outer Banks, the Tidewater region and Virginia's Tangier Island sounding like an uncorrupted Elizabethan-era English accent have been busted as myths by linguists. "