The depressing thing is a lot of these wonderful regional accents are slowly dying off thanks to the significant exposure to national and international media that people consume. Like you'll still encounter older individuals with these regional Midwestern accents, particularly in smaller and more remote communities, but the accents are slowly disappearing (or more accurately, speakers are slowly subconsciously moving to a more generic Midwestern accent that's more widely understood)
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