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What's with all the southern accents?

posted 8 years ago by MermaidsRreal
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Isn't this set in New York, in a minimum security prison?

Taystee clearly has a southern accent. She speaks just like a lot of people in my city.

Cindy--although less pronounced, it's clearly a southern accent.
Doggit-clearly southern

The black girl who is supposed to be hood and angry all the time (horrible acting with the excessive neck rolling, etc)--she's tall and skinny, was a track star.

I understand the Paula Deen/Martha Stewart character having the southern accent. She's a celebrity.

Sophia even has a slight southern twang going on.

I remember Taystee's background story and she clearly grew up in NY, so what's up with that?

I know people move all the time to different cities. So spare me the condescending comments. So it just seems there would be more to their background. I wish they had done a little more background on the characters who have been on the show since season 1.

[–] Shewolf30 8 years ago

sophia/laverne cox is supposed to be from mobile, al. those other women are new yorkers, i think.

[–] postcardstocali 8 years ago

I highly doubt that. There was that whole storyline about the 2 sons carpooling together on the weekends

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[–] shenandoahpride 8 years ago

Doggett is from rural Virginia, so that explains her accent.

[–] Paradox93 8 years ago

as a resident of va.. we DONT *beep* TALK LIKE THAT

[–] Snoopy1 8 years ago

I think that in federal prisons, you can get sent anywhere regardless of your location.

[–] thetaylors604 8 years ago

This is true. You can also be moved from one federal pen to another, without warning and you have no say in the matter. This nearly happened to Piper.

[–] misskandikrafts 8 years ago

I can kind of explain the whole New Yorker that sounds Southern thing.
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York but was raised by my grandmother who was from South Carolina and my father is from Guyana. As I grew up I developed a bit of both their accents mixed with the Brooklyn accent, but people ask me if I am from the South or the Carribean all the time. It is very similar to people that are born in America to Caribbean parents, you hear a Caribbean accent, yet they were born and raised here the U.S.
Speaking of accents, sometimes people move to another area but never lose their accent(my grandmother is a great example of this, she moved to NY at 18 and died in NY at 73 and always had that Southern twang, most Caribbean people are a great example of this as well)so it is possible that these women didn't lose their accent as well

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