A Twist of Things to Come

Well, I can tell the difference between a Philly accent and a Brooklyn accent, too. But the movies seem to treat Southern accents like they are all the same, yet if a movie had everyone in New York sounding like they came from Philly, people would get upset about it because most entertainment industry folks are familiar with those accents as separate entities. Entertainment folk familiar with the South almost always get it right (the Bloodsworth Thompsons had all of the Designing Women sound plausibly Atlantan, for example, and Billy Bob Thornton's entire cast of The Gift was flawlessly Louisianan) because they know the difference.