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I had a friend in high school who was from Long Island. I think talking to him pulled my speech patterns less Southern.

But if I'm talking to my mom on the phone, it all comes back.

Code switching. Super common with southerners living outside the south in my experience. We all have various degrees we let the accents out depending on who we're talking to.

I can almost completely hide it at work if I want but I let some through bc people like a little. If I talked to my coworkers the way I talk to my siblings though it would be a disaster because of prejudice around our dialect.

I didn't expect it to be automatic!

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