History UsefulNotes / AmericanAccents

* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Alastor the Radio Demon, despite being a mixed-race native of New Orleans, speaks with a prominent "radio newscaster" voice complete with [[RadioVoice radio distortion]] due to his old job as the host of a local radio show in the 1920s. He does occasionally inject very, very slight Southern tics into his speech, however ("Of course not! That's HWACKY nonsense!").

* John Calipari, Hall of Fame basketball coach at the University of Kentucky and a native of suburban Pittsburgh, has even more of his accent left.

* [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood Fred Rogers]]: Mr. Rogers, being an educated man from Latrobe, about an hour away, probably had the most famous version of what a "polished" version of the accent sounds like.

* [=CinnamonToastKen=], [[LetsPlay/PewDiePie PewDiePie]]'s friend, has this accent.

* [[OneSceneWonder The trailer guy and his mom]] from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc.'' "Mama, another gator [Randall] got in the house!" "Not the gator! Gimme that shovel!"

* Most CountryMusic singers have either this accent or a Texas or cowboy one. Even if they're not from the region (like the [[LandDownUnder Australian]] Music/KeithUrban or the {{Canad|aEh}}ian Music/ShaniaTwain), they still tend to affect one of these three accents. (Compare the phenomenon of American indie bands putting on British accents while singing to sound like [[Music/{{Oasis}} Liam and Noel Gallagher]], or '60s [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion British Invasion]] bands imitating the American accents of '50s RockAndRoll singers).

This is probably best described as a strange combination of the Inland North and UsefulNotes/{{Vermont}} accents. There's a hint of influence from their {{Canad|aEh}}ian neighbors -- "about" is not quite pronounced "aboot", but it's close, and "eh" is relatively common. Humorously, people with these accents are perhaps the most likely to say, "But we don't have an accent," second, perhaps, only to those with the standard Midwestern accent.

* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Alastor the Radio Demon, despite being a mixed-race native of New Orleans, speaks with a prominent "radio newscaster" voice complete with [[RadioVoice radio distortion]] due to his old job as the host of a local radio show in the 1920s.

* Random petty criminals from dramas in the Golden Age of Radio would have a mix of this accent and Joisey, even if they were from the Midwest or California.

* Most teenaged characters in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong''. {{Justified}} by them being New Yorkers (even if Jake tends to drop it when getting serious).

Due to the increasing commercial popularity of Afro-American Culture since the latter half of the 20th century, many people outside of the Black community and even outside of America itself have adopted parts of this dialect/accent in order to seem "hip" or "cool", a fact that has garnered no small amount of attention in media. In fiction, this can lead to all manner of amusing scenes. For example, a mild-mannered Soccer mom making clumsy attempts at rapping that parody the hip-hop artists of the times or privileged middle-class kids from the suburbs bumping TrapMusic and chirping out phrases like "no cap" "on god" or "spin the block" in a video game voice chat. However, in the real world, this has led to some serious debate on the topic of cultural appropriation which we will not go into further on this page. Regardless, it should be noted that since the turn of the millennium, much of the trendy slang utilized by teens and young adults around the world did not spring up out of the ether, but rather is directly rooted in some form of AAVE.

'''Stereotype:''' Rapper, Professional Athlete, Urban Delinquent, Basically just think of all the stereotypes of black urban youth or white kids that want to seem hip. It's also not unusual to hear older black folks use bits of slang from their youth that have been outdated for decades, such as "cold", "bad", or "slammin'" for something that's impressive.

Common to both accents is a nasal pronunciation of "or" sounds that's closer to "ar" (think of the Received pronunciation of "orange" and you won't be too far off). So, for example, the phrase "horrible Florida oranges" may come out as "harble Flarda arnjes"

* CinnamonToastKen, [[LetsPlay/PewDiePie PewDiePie]]'s friend, has this accent.

* Voice actor Creator/JimCummings is Cajun and so can turn the accent on if need be, such for Ray in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''.

* Voice actor Jim Cummings is Cajun and so can turn the accent on if need be.
%%* James Carville.

* In ''Literature/TheBlindSide'', Ed Orgeron, a Cajun who coached the book's subject Michael Oher at [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball Ole Miss]], was depicted as having an accent so thick that almost no one could understand him, with one notable exception being Oher's adoptive father Sean Tuohy, a New Orleans native (though not Cajun). Orgeron would go on to [[AsHimself play himself]] in the film, Cajun accent and all.