Northern WV(Morgantown) starts to sound like Pittsburgh.

Wv could really be two states. The culture of northern WV is entirely different from the southern WV culture. It really is where the south meets the north. ❤

It is and it isn't. I have heard Knott's accent in Wv. However, I have heard it all over Wv. I lived in southern Wv my whole life and have heard accents just like his. Anymore I don't say it's where you're from in Wv but when you grew up mostly and who you spent your time with.

My mother went to school with him. According to her, Andy was just a tall, skinny, redhaired boy who liked glee club. One story she would recite about him was he didn't know how to ring a chicken's neck. (don't ask me) It seems my grandmother told him to go outside and take care off a chicken. Well minutes later there was all kinds of squawking going on outside. She and her mother went to the door to see Andy swinging a bird by the head above his head. The bird was pooping all over the side of the house. My mom said my grandmother grabbed the bird and snapped it's neck while calling him a dumbass. My mom said it was one of the few time she heard her mother curse.😃😃

Alden P it depends on what part of West VA. The part that goes up into PA Ohio obviously is Northern. The Eastern Panhandle and on down is much more Southern.

Depends on which side of 79 your on. Toward Morgantown, Wheeling and Parkersburg the accent takes on PA and OH influence but anywhere south of Clarksburg it's Appalachian American to the State line. Not southern but takes more from it then Northern. I'm originally from Barbour Co and we have a very distinct accent.

+Alden P NY/PA is not traditional Appalachia. The "Appalachians", as in part of the mountain chain named after the cultural area? Sure, fair enough... but not really the same thing. As far as West Virginia: They're geographically mid-Atlantic. Culturally, they're rural mid-Atlantic with southern leanings, but a good deal of southerners don't regard them as such for historical reasons. Virginia would be in much the same boat if they hadn't seceded, but due largely to the fact it was the original capital of the CSA and most of its leaders were from there, it doesn't face the same scrutiny.

Bob Papadopoulos If WEST VA/VA is Mid Atlantic why is Kentucky considered the South? Shouldn't KY be Midwest ? Virginia is much more Southern than KY. Virginia is the Upper South. Mid Atlantic states are NY, PA, and NJ, and part of DE.

Meade Skelton That argument kinda falls apart when you note that most don't consider Kentucky southern either...

Depends really. I am from southern Wv and have heard some really thick accents. Went to school with a guy from Alabama and he sounded like some folks I know from Wv. His accent was so thick some folks couldn't understand him but I could.

I grew up near the terminus of the chain in northern N.H (Conway) and trust me some of those old Yankees were hard to understand but that was the 50's and 60's, outhouses, coal bins and I remember the really old timers growing native plants for food and medicine like milkweed etc. We had an innate aversion to outsiders and a deep pride in our home and culture

+bobbyleewv It has nothing to do with making it less Southern, as it does clarity. There are many different Southern accents and having a Southern accent doesn't mean you can' t have good diction or "proper" elocution. Lots of Northerners don't speak very clearly. Especially people from NY/NJ area.

Meade Music southern accent is dead all of us sound the same nowadays

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wrong. i have a strong appalachian accent

thats crap dont gota take classes

That is quite a general question

Sentinel Weapon no not really they still had slaves in the North

Was NEVER about slavery but the exploitation and over taxation of the South. History got bent. Much Like when they try to pwn off the fact that Christopher Columbus discovered America when in fact he didn't he didn't even come close nor do we know exactly where he went . The first European to discover America was in fact Leif Ericson in 999. But America taught 1492 Christopher Columbus for decades along with other BS about how we as America did things we didn't really do. Look at what's going on now with all the cities removing Confederate general statues . That's part of history should never be removed but because people have a political agenda they choose to wipe history away and rewrite it way they want it. Californians mother states that her teaching crazy things to elementary school kids such as the Second Amendment which clearly states "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." But not in the new textbooks that are being used instead this is what the new textbooks state the Second Amendment says "The people have the right to keep and bear arms in a state militia". Huge difference! But Americans won't dare challenge that and it will be taken as fact and a whole generation will have been lied to.

Emancipation Proclamation, about the exploitation and over taxation of the South, got it, I'm pretty sure, growin' up in se utah, that my history teacher stressed it was about abolishing slavery, but getting down to the "nitty-gritty", its more logical it would be what you state here its about.

Your teacher was wrong. Slavery was never an issue. Only 1.4 percent of the American population at the time of the Civil War actually owned slaves. So a war was waged over 1.4 percent of the population which included Northerners, Southerners, Whites and Blacks who owned slaves. No, no it wasn't. Taxation, well over taxation of the southern cotton and produce were the actual causes of the American Civil War. Anyone who says slavery is a fool. Lincoln said this, "My policy sought only to collect the Revenue (a 40 percent federal sales tax on imports to Southern States under the Morrill Tariff Act of 1861)." reads paragraph 5 of Lincoln's First Message to the U.S. Congress, penned July 4, 1861. "I have no purpose, directly or in-directly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so," Lincoln said it his first inaugural on March 4 of the same year. There is no proof of Lincoln ever declaring the war was fought to abolish slavery, and without such an official statement, the war-over-slavery teaching remains a complete lie and offensive hate speech that divides Americans, as is being done now by the media and politicians. Slavery was NOT abolished; just the name was changed to sharecropper with over 5 million Southern whites and 3 million Southern blacks working on land stolen by Wall Street bankers. White, black, Indian, Hispanic, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Confederates valiantly stood as one in thousands of battles on land and sea. Afterwards, they attended Confederate Veterans' reunions together and received pensions from Southern States. Lincoln did not claim slavery was a reason even in his Emancipation Proclamations on Sept. 22, 1862, and Jan. 1, 1863. Moreover, Lincoln's proclamations exempted a million slaves under his control from being freed (including General U.S. Grant's four slaves) and offered the South three months to return to the Union (pay 40 percent sales tax) and keep their slaves. None did. Lincoln affirmed his only reason for issuing was: "as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said (tax) rebellion."

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It really depends on when you grew up. My family is from Summers county and they have similar accents to Barney. However, I have ran into others who have thicker accents. Most of those with thicker accents were older folks or spent their time around folks with thicker accents.

You're aware this is a fictional television show, correct?

@@empirion502 I’m saying I never took American history in school because I’m Canadian but had a rough assumption on what the emancipation proclamation was