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Don't move to South Texas,. The incorrect grammar and misuse of slang would drive you insane. Also, people tend to confuse where you're from if you're not Hispanic. It's not really on purpose; most people just can't tell Japanese from Chinese.

Don't get me wrong, though; not everyone's like that. I, for one, have a lot of friends who are of other races, and it's quiet fun to hang out with them, but most of the adults will screw up where you're from. But as for racism, its practically non-existent down here as far as I know because we're all a minority race. xp

The sad thing is, I'm about as Anglo-Saxon as a Viking. My friend is the Korean. Poor thing, I just start swearing with her.

We get a lot of inserted r's around here too. Things like "piller" instead of "pillow." Ah well. Maybe I just need to get out of Indiana.

Hooray for the Mid-western accent! I've lived in Grand Rapids, MI my entire life, so I know what you mean. For the most part, I associate myself with the "nerds" at my school. But my brother is unfortunate enough to live in a redneck city, so I can completely understand what you're talking about.

I hate it when some one doesn't finish a word such as thousand is "thou". My own father does it. We don't get additional 'r's down here in florida, but we have people saying things like, "I didn't do nothing". It kills me!

The only thing I've heard in my area of the Midwest (and I've heard this a lot...) is "more better," and similar phrases. I'm sure most people know the correct phrase and just slip on accident, but I pick it out every time and it kind of bothers me, but I can deal with it. xd

I live in upstate New York where, thankfully, pronunciation isn't mutilated too horrible. However, most of my extended family on my mom's side lives down by New York City where you 'drawr' a picture and you get clothes out of your 'draw' and you drink a cup of 'cawfee'. *shudder*

To top it all off, my dad's entire side of the family either lives in or comes from Ireland. Have you ever heard anyone trying to speak English in a thick downtown Dublin accent? When I'm on the phone with my grandfather I swear I can never understand a word he's saying -__-;; I can only say 'uh huh' at appropriate intervals.

Oh dear, Midwest dialect. I love it so. I keep meaning to write a dictionary on our ridiculous language, because truly, it isn't English what we speak 'round here. I've noticed that a lot of times, consonants aren't pronounced when they follow 'n'.



I kid you not, we sound like that, don't we?



Yeah. And I've had arguments with my mother--who lived in Pittsburgh during her high school years--whether to call a carbonated beverage such as Pepsi a "soda" or a "pop." I don' know 'bout you, Mom, but we say 'soda' 'roun' here!"

I don't think most of us are racist, we just have issues with ethnicity. All Hispanics are Mexican and all Asians are Chinese according to Midwest people. And don't argue it with most Midwesterners, because they really don't care. My mother is one of them.

The older folks 'round here say "warsh" and a lot of my friends say "crown" for some weird reason. And "drawl" for "draw." "Crick" for "creek." "Y'all" gets spelled wrong. That takes effort, right there.