I've been to Iowa, and went out with a girl from Des Moines. She had an accent that I thought was German, but she was a native Iowan. My keyboard player in that band was from Nebraska. I never could figure out what he meant when he said he was going to warsh his clothes.squiers007 wrote:Being a Yankee (Iowan) that now lives in Texas I'd just like to say that all of the above is completely correct and hilarious!

OTOH when told I was a native Bostonian people wondered why I didn't sound like a Kennedy. I told them that the Kennedys sounded odd to me.
So do the Wahlbergs. They don't have a Boston accent, they have a South Boston accent.