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Originally Posted by Shawn
Plus, it gets more Italian and less Portuguese the more south you go. South Kingston during the summer is like a Jersey Shore Lite. And “coffee” gets that much closer to “kwafee”. But it’s still coming from a Dunkin, a Honey Dew, or a Cumbie’s (which is most likely selling Dunkin or Honey Dew).
Alex Bornstein does a great job nailing the RI accent for her Lois Griffin voice acting: mostly a Boston accent, but with certain New York traits here and there. “Coffee” is a big giveaway whether someone is from RI or from Mass.
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My New England family has the "Bob" test--up in NH it's "Bawb" and down in RI it's "Bwab." Within MA it depends on which side of the Charles they happen to live.
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Originally Posted by CaliNative
Crescent City CA (far rainforest northwest) and El Centro (far desert southeast) have nothing in common, except perhaps a shared suspicion of state government in far away Sacramento.
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Crescent City was wiped out by
four tsunami waves generated by the Alaskan Good Friday Earthquake in 1964, and so it is denuded and charmless. They don't even have many street trees in the rebuilt lowlands.
Far Northern California, where I thankfully just moved from, is economically depressed, hard-right, and monotonously white. Southern California, where I thankfully just moved to, is economically vibrant, center-left, and multiracial/multi-ethnic. The North State is volcanoes and wolves; Southern California is avocadoes and waves.