If you had a southern accent, would you try to change it?

Across the fast-growing South, accents are under assault, and not just from the modern-day Henry Higginses of academia. There's the flood of transplants from other regions, notions of Southern upward mobility that require dropping the drawl, and stereotypes that 'y'alls' and 'suhs' signal low status or lack of intelligence.

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