Reply #30: That's another aspect. [View All]

[jobycom]

Gulfport, where I grew up, is sandwiched between a large Air Force base, a SeaBee base, a national guard camp, and several government research facilities, and was a minor tourist area for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Jackson. So there was a mix of cultures and accents. Where I grew up was just north of the cosmopolitan area and just south of the extreme rural rest of Mississippi, so I got both, and could move easily between the groups. Plus, my mother was from New Orleans, and her father still had a slight German accent. Then I married an Air Force brat. So maybe I'm not typical.