Southerner here: A "northern accent" classically means any accent from the larger northeastern cities. Boston, Jersey, they're all subsets of "northern" to the

Southerner here: A "northern accent" classically means any accent from the larger northeastern cities. Boston, Jersey, they're all subsets of "northern" to the Southern brain. What's funny is I live in Nola and the traditional New Orleans "Yatty" accent sounds "northern" to me (somewhere in Brooklyn to be specific).