Quote Originally Posted by beowulf67 View Post
An accent from Illinois is considered 'southern'? That's interesting.
Southern Illinois can be pretty far south! Eyeball it on a map...

I've not spent much time there, but had friends who went to SIU. I did live in southern Indiana for a time, and it's very homelike to this Carolina boy. Only a few things stood out to me: Not every cafe served grits for breakfast. People said you'uns instead of y'all, or at least the country folk did.

A little farther up the Ohio River, Cincinnati used to bill itself as "the northernmost Southern city."