Comments by "WarfarenotWarfair" (@warfarenotwarfair5655) on "Man Born in 1846 Talks About the 1860s and Fighting in the Civil War - Enhanced Audio" video.

@Kendrix_76 That is because he isn't a real Southerner but a more recent family of immigrants from England. America has detailed documents of its immigration and many Southerners came out of Ulster County with many being related to Protestant Scots. This is why they are warlike and overly macho not to mention lazy. The English nobility changed their accent in the 1800s to sound more sophisticated than their local peasantry. The American accent has never changed other than being dominated by the general one which is also older than the current British one.
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Im from Virginia, I don't recognize this accent. Sounds British.
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@timdyer5903 You have it backwards. The American accent is older than the standard British accents you hear today. This man is most likely from a more recent immigrant family from England not many decades prior. To assume the American English has magically changed is to be in error. The British mobility was always looking to differentiate themselves from the commoners including modifying speech you hear today. Americans had no such class issues.
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@StDavidpipes That's because he is most likely a newer immigrant of his time not one from decades prior. People foolishly think the American accent magically changed when it was the British nobility that changed theirs in the 1800s.
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@Kendrix_76 It didn't evolve, you are simply incorrect and unaware of where these people immigrated from. Southerners overwhelmingly come out of Ulster County. People thinking they came from Southern England and sounding like Patrick Stewart need to put the heroin down.
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@Garrett1240 Most people are unaware that these Southerners primarily came out of Ulster County and are of Scottish descent. They are not from the tame English areas but rather from very violent parts of the old country. Their accents from that region are also the same as today.
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@timdyer5903 Wrong, the UK changed its accent. Assuming immigrants somehow "changed" their accent and the mother country didn't is an exercise in ignorance. Many of the American English pronunciation are older than what is used in the UK of today. That posh English you hear today was an aristocratic invention of the 1800s. The same goes for Quebec which sounds a lot different than modern French which is full of English words.
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@timdyer5903 As for Canada the country was Catholic and were populated by a lot of Scots not from Ulster County like Protestant American Southerners.
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@SBStruzzo1 Good information, my mother is from South Carolina and the rest of my family a from Virginia. My DNA test came back a lot of English, some Irish, and a lot of Scottish. Several people on my mother's side have some assortment of red hair. My mother has Scottish, Irish, and German DNA. I have lived in other countries and several states, Virginians sound different but identifiably American.
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