Is the southern accent intimidating?

[n8thegr8]

I've been fortunate to travel all over the world, and its fun to see the reactions of folks when they find out your from Oklahoma.

No accent here (although I have been accused of turning okie by family, lol), but I have seen this.

Went home for Christmas one year, and was out for a drink. My high-school english teacher was the bartender, and when he saw my Driver's License, he said "OKLAHOMA?!?!? Why's your driver's license say Oklahoma?" "...because that's where I live...."

Guess he couldn't comprehend why anyone would want to live here, lol.

 

[mugsy]

It's amusing in the A.M. to listen to you Good 'Ole Boys pat yourself on the back and imagine...err...recall how your very presence impresses people.
Maybe you just underestimate your personal magnetism? Or your vivid imagination?

 

[Mos Eisley]

Sounds to me like the first one just thought you were cute.

I'm from KC, I have no accent. I just think ya'll sound like shady used car salesmen.

 

[Okie4570]

It's only intimidating when heard from a front porch with a shotgun in hand. "Yall get on outta hea!"

 

[rlongnt]

It's amusing in the A.M. to listen to you Good 'Ole Boys pat yourself on the back and imagine...err...recall how your very presence impresses people.
Maybe you just underestimate your personal magnetism? Or your vivid imagination?

I’m sure that’s true to some degree but I think it has more to do with the way Okies carry themselves. Not a matter of arrogance but a confidence that others notice. And no it isn’t a unique trait to just here.

Unfortunately, like Jeff Foxworthy says we just can’t keep the dumbest amongst us off CNN describing the sound of a tornado.

 

[MLRyan]

I got verbally attacked for holding a door for a woman one time. Something along the lines of," I don't need you to do that , I can do it myself, I don't need your help." To which I responded, "I'm from Mississippi..." She said, oh "I'm sorry, thank you and went on her way. This was in Chicago.

 

[rhodesbe]

I talk, and act, like a hayseed too. In the big cities, some people love it, some people loathe it. It never hurts to be polite and a little drawly around pretty women and stuffed shirt businessmen.

I once was speaking in a group of Danish people that thought my accent (I have none, really) was the cat's meow. They really liked the contrast between a South Yukon accent versus the NYC-yankee bleat they were used to hearing.

 

[MLRyan]

My southern accent is one of my most useful pick up tools, but obviously only in states that don't have an accent.

 

[DanB]

Some people that reside above the Sweat Tea Line don't understand manners. It confuses them.

That and cowboys that far north tuck their jeans in their boots. This gives them somewhere to put the sheep's back legs.

 

[inactive]

yankee sissyboys are often intimidated by real men. Think nothing of it, and keep on doing your thing.

They probably expected you to whip out a sixgun and start shooting the roaches.

You guys miss that he was in Spokane, Washington? You do realize eastern WA is practically Idaho, and about as far removed from Western Washington or California or the Northeast as we are?