A few of you may know my accent is completely abnormal for the region where I was raised. In some ways it sounds midwestern or even Canadian. Apparently children also identify affiliation by accents like they do gender and skin color. So I had TWO strikes against me?

My parents seem the likely culprits for my accent as well since neither reflect the local accent. Though it seems curious to me some people lose their native accents to fit in to the local region while I could live 30 years in a place and never pick up the accent.