My parents grew up before television, and for their early years, they had no electricity at home. and not even any radio to listen to. Their accent was midweste

My parents grew up before television, and for their early years, they had no electricity at home. and not even any radio to listen to. Their accent was midwestern USA, easy for most people to understand and I got my accent from them. While young, I would occasionally hear people from the Deep South and have some difficulty with their accents, but by the time I had gotten through college everyone’s accent seemed to have moderated. I believe that thirty years of having widely watched TV programs largely homogenized the pronunciation of US English.