Southern charm

Someone once said they like using the southern accent for humor and drama.

Really? Our accent is a melange of French, Scottish, Native American Spanish, English, Irish, German, and Gullah.

It was formed in miserably humid summers when it's too hot to even speak. It's the sweetness of azaleas, Spanish moss, mint juleps; the pound of horses feet on earth. It is the voice of Pat Conroy. Harper Lee. James Dickey. Zora Neale Hurston. Martin Luther King. Thomas Wolfe. Alice Walker. William Faulkner. Dorothea Benton Frank. Truman Capote. 

I defy you to find another part of the American landscape that has produced such a diversity of writers and genres, has endured decades of hardship and heartache and still found the strength to sing. Our southern accent is more than just humor or drama. It is history itself.