Does the Southern American English accent sounds the same for White and Black Southerners?

[Richmondbread]

I can usually tell apart a black American speaking because there's just something different tonally about it the vast majority of the time.

Black southerners and white southerners may have similarities but there's quite a bit of difference in how they sound, that's just my opinion/perception. As always it depends on the individual.


An interesting thing unrelated to the question is that I live in "the south", or more precisely, East Texas. In my line of work I sometimes come into contact with people from Georgia. Well, people from the border area of Gerogia and South Carolina, and I shit you not I can't understand half of what they say.

I never thought Texas was really the South.

[Dragoon]

The African-Americans in the south seem to have their own accent or something. Ive listened to a religious lady (she said some truths tbh) from Louisiana and the difference was there.

I never thought Texas was really the South.

But geographically nothing goes as South as Texas and Florida.

[Thorns]

I never thought Texas was really the South.

Well, I agree, but East Texas is moreso.

Most of Texas is just... Texas, something else entirely.

The south has a degree of variation, I consider deep east Texas part of it, the westernmost expanse of it. I've seen enough of and been through enough of the south to come to that conclusion.

[KMack]

Do they speak with a similar tone? Or do they differ a lot? I tend to observe that Black Americans in the USA have almost the same accent, being them from Mississippi, New York or California that kinda identifies and tears them apart from regular English Speaking Americans (usualy Whites and most Asians) , even to a blind person who can't see the race of the individual but in general any Southerner regardless of race has a specific accent, do White Southerners sound close to Black Southerners?

No

[Richmondbread]

The African-Americans in the south seem to have their own accent or something. Ive listened to a religious lady (she said some truths tbh) from Louisiana and the difference was there.



But geographically nothing goes as South as Texas and Florida.

Texas is more Southern than Florida, but Texas really has it's own cultural thing going on. Same with Louisiana. Geography doesn't indicate culture.

[Borealis]

I can usually tell apart a black American speaking because there's just something different tonally about it the vast majority of the time.

Black southerners and white southerners may have similarities but there's quite a bit of difference in how they sound, that's just my opinion/perception. As always it depends on the individual.


An interesting thing unrelated to the question is that I live in "the south", or more precisely, East Texas. In my line of work I sometimes come into contact with people from Georgia. Well, people from the border area of Gerogia and South Carolina, and I shit you not I can't understand half of what they say.

There is something unique about African American voices for sure. They often have a purr to them that is impossible to replicate.