Last week came a news story from The Associated Press that was basically an obituary for the Southern tongue.
The article says that people in the American South are slowly losing their distinctive drawl due to an influx of new residents from other parts of the country.
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Almost 6 million people have moved to the South in the last half-decade, the article says, which is changing the way we speak in the Deep South, especially in urban centers such as Atlanta and Charlotte.
And if y’all don’t believe this, yinz can just go on back to Pittsburgh.