Growing up as a Midwesterner, I took great pride in the fact that our regional dialect didn't tend to smear vowels around like those in some of the dirty South

Growing up as a Midwesterner, I took great pride in the fact that our regional dialect didn't tend to smear vowels around like those in some of the dirty South states did. Then I got out in the real world and discovered all the weird shit we Midwesterners say really does make us sound like rednecks after all, just a different shade.