I've noticed that rural people in the west, like Utah and Wyoming often have hints of a southern-y redneck accent. Same with Indiana. I assumed it was due to th

I've noticed that rural people in the west, like Utah and Wyoming often have hints of a southern-y redneck accent. Same with Indiana. I assumed it was due to the popularity of country music and all the "redneck" shows on television. Sort of like how media in the UK spread the MLE/jafaican dialect all around so that it's sort of the default youth dialect regardless of ethnicity.