Paula Deen shocked to learn her family owned slaves, Y'all"

[hustle4alivin]

New Orleans accents in movies almost always make me cringe. Native New Orleanians do not have Cajun accents!

[CornFlakegrl]

Being a northerner I have nothing to add to this convo except to say that I love southern accents. I'm a sucker for 'em. And I mean real ones, not that Paula Dean squawking.

[shedevilang]

I'm west-central Louisiana around Toledo Bend if you have any idea where that is lmao

[hustle4alivin]

I'm west-central Louisiana around Toledo Bend if you have any idea where that is lmao

I cheated and googled it, but I see why you don't have a Cajun accent cause you're nowhere near Cajun country!

[WhateverLolaWants]

I am always amused by the blanket southern accents used in the movies when the accents are so very different! When I hear someone supposedly from Texas using a Savannah-like southern drawl, I just roll my eyes. True Texans talk FAST.

Of course, I am told often I have no accent (I hear 'midwestern' on occasion as well) I guess that's what happens when you're born in the northeast to two yanks and then raised in the southwest for most of your life. You accent falls right in the middle

[SHELLEE]

Being from Florida, I have no accent. We speak correctly.

[Fran]

I am pretty sure there were no slave owners in my family. We live in a county that had so many Union supporters the county was named for them. I have always heard the people here were too poor to own slaves. I hope that is correct.

[witchcurlgirl]

I know we didn't, and I'd say it's true for most people I grew up with. Our ancestors were more likely to be fleeing poverty, political upheaval, pogroms and potato famines than owning other people.

[OrangeSlice]

That's true for our side too. From the time they immigrated, they were too dirt poor to own anything.

[Fran]

Orange your avi is too cute. Mona looks like that dark haired daughter from the Roseanne show in that pic.

[OrangeSlice]

Thanks! I saw it as someone else's avatar on another forum and decided to steal it, lol. I've never thought about it before, but she does look a bit like Darlene.

[sluce]

I know my family owned slaves. They came into Virginia very early in US history. They had large properties in Henrico County. Then a branch moved to North Carolina and another to TN and they still had large properties that had to be worked. Finally, a branch, my direct line, went on to settle Bell County Tx. There were no slaves there. If I could go back, I would ask Paula to talk to them.

[Mel1973]

Yep that's true about Louisiana for damn sure, New Orleans people all talk different and the rest of us talk nothing like them lol. People always expect me to have a cajun accent and I just don't. I also sound nothing like brittney fucking spears (queen of the fake accent)

No, you don't have a cajun accent. You DO have a thicker southern accent than me somehow. We both spent formative years in similar places and I don't sound all that similar to you.

I'm west-central Louisiana around Toledo Bend if you have any idea where that is lmao

Oh, Hustle - google Ramah... lawd jesus, I lived down there for years... my daddy caught crawfish for living and I swear to jaysus, you've never heard such coon ass talk in all your life! Try Gross Tete (pronounced Gross State), Plaquemine, Maringouin... I just KNEW I could never live with myself if I spoke like those people... I love listening to them (my daddy's family still lives there) but I canNOT bear the thought of that coming from my mouth.

Being from Florida, I have no accent. We speak correctly.

Now, THAT is some funny shit!

[PinkSharpie]

My husband is from south Georgia and his accent was no where near Paula Deens. I am from the Shenandoah Valley part of Virginia and our kids are being raised in the Tidewater area of Virginia. It's a weird mish mash going on and we don't really sound like either of our families anymore. Hubby's accent isn't as thick anymore, mine has thickened a bit from being around him, and our kids are a combination of both of us.

I don't know if any of my ancestors were slave owners. I know that no one on my father's side were because my aunt traced that genealogy all the way back to the 1400's on my grandpa's side and the 1500s on my grandma's. My mother's side the the question mark because they are the southern side of my family. They may have, but I tend to doubt it because they have always been pretty poor. I hope to trace that side of my family someday but I don't have the time or the patience for it right now.

[Lobelia]

That's true for our side too. From the time they immigrated, they were too dirt poor to own anything.

Mine too. I've researched both sides and before the civil war, they were all a bunch of dirt poor hillbillies. A glorious lineage, I have.