The first two people have done a decent job suppressing it. There's still a touch of it, but it's not enough to stand out or grate.
The guy at 0:15 is a good example of someone who has kept the accent but has applied the generic "newscaster" delivery on top of it. He looks and sounds almost like a Chris Cooper parody of a southerner.
The guy at 1:01 is a good example of a guy who speaks with the educated, "city" version of my native area's accent. He grew up in and is the mayor of Boaz. Boaz has just under 10,000 people in it. That's about the same number of people living in Guntersville and about half the number of the people living in Albertville. Albertville's about as big as it gets in our area. Boaz, Albertville, and Guntersville are all on U.S. Route 431, and they're all close enough to one another to feel sort of like one really long town.
The above three accents are the height of Sand Mountain/Lower Appalachian sophistication. Here, again, is my stepfather's accent:
His accent is more typical of the working class near where I grew up.
Re: Alabama, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Posted: January 16th, 2016, 2:14 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
You'll spot some Bond at 1:07 in the "Double-Yolked" video.
Re: Alabama, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Posted: January 28th, 2016, 12:15 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
Look at the absolute fucking stupidity in the comments on this page:
"One of the most respected football players in the history of the game, and arguably one of the toughest, was hazed so badly while at the University of Alabama that it derailed his college career, disqualified him from military service and affected him throughout his 16 years with the Green Bay Packers."