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[doyle]

Fic question: I'm terrible with accents (American accents. Gimme Irish or English folks and I'm golden, but, ah, I can just barely tell an American accent from a Canadian one. And then only if the person says 'about') Anyway. Does Tara (or one of the family members we saw in Family) have any kind of identifiable accent that places her/them from a certain state?

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texas is 1200 miles from kentucky. southern ≠ redneck.

i got the distinct impression that tara's family was from the deep south (mississippi/alabama), rather than texas. fred's natural voice is a texas accent. the fake accent her family uses is stereotypical arkansas/louisiana/east texas, but isn't what you get.

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Now wait just a minute. I grew up in Mississippi and Alabama, and they're not from there!!!! Pawn them off on some other unsuspecting state. Oh, I know... West Virginia!!!

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i think the problem is that it's a californian interpretation of a backwater accent, which is a mishmash--designed to be "redneck"--of perfectly acceptable regional american accents that is so convoluted that it really doesn't belong anywhere. but then again, fooey on sociolinguistics.