why Palin and Bachmann "talk the same way" (Minn.)

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http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2009/08/mnindy-why-palin-and-bachmann-talk-same.html


MnIndy: why Palin and Bachmann "talk the same way"

Bachmann gets props from Palin, Politico


...The reason Bachmann and Palin share a regional accent: A government-relief program in the 1930s populated Palin’s home region in Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley with Minnesotans...


How about that? During the Depression, a big federal government program set up Minnesotans in Alaska--so now there's a bunch of Republicans up there still taking federal tax money and talking about how much they hate big federal government--in Minnesota accents.

Meanwhile, down here in the lower 48--Bachmann's talking about how much she hates the federal government and how people shouldn't be taxed to redistribute wealth. While the Bachmann family farm continues to receive federal subsidies! And she's doing that in a Minnesota accent.

Moral of the story: you can get away with taking land and money from the federal government for generations, cursing out the federal government for giving you the land and money, and cursing out other Americans who take money and help from the government--if you're a Republican and you do it with a Minnesota accent.
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I learn something new everyday

[Cant trust em]

1. This has to be one of America's goofier accents, IMO. nt

[glinda]

2. I have lived in MN. my whole life and don't talk like that, don't know hardly anyone who talks like

that. Have met only a rare few and that is out in super rural areas that are mostly farmers and rural people. Mostly elderly actually.

[uncle ray]

3. i lived in MN until about 7 years ago.

once you get away for a while and return, you begin to realize just how much minnesotans sound like cast members in the movie Fargo. the longer you are away, the worse it gets.

[dflprincess]

7. There's quite a lot of it around Park Rapids

and once you got west of Glencoe in it got worse the closer you got to South Dakota.

When I was in junior high my family moved back to Minnesota from the east coast. One day I was pulled out of class and sent to a speech therapist. She had me read a few things aloud and then said "You haven't lived hear all your life - you've lived back east." I confirmed this and then she said "I'll let your teacher know you have an accent, not a speech problem."

At the time I was mortified, now I think it's funny.

[Cant trust em]

8. That is such a funny story. nt

[glinda]

9. Funny!. The people I have heard a slight bit of it have been older, farm/rural from

out Park Rapids way, like you say, the closer to SD, the more of it one hears.
I lived in NYC for a year and no one guessed where I was from at all but was told I sounded more west coasty. Hrrrmf*.
I just don't run into these people unless they are of strong norwegian or Scandinavian background. Or old German.
But then again I grew up in a strongly ethnic Northern Euro home. Prussian.

[dflprincess]

10. I know when I have been in other parts of the country

(especially since "Fargo" came out) sooner or later someone will say "You don't sound like you're from Minnesota." :rofl:

[Subdivisions]

4. Accent as immortalized by Lucille Tarlek

of the classic WKRP in Cincinatti TV show.




http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi1009909785/

[SoCalDem]

5. "Cute-girl speak"..amplified..

In many cultures, girls are only valued for how they look. Their peers & contacts don't really care that much what's in the brain..as much as what's under that spandex top & tight jeans. if she looks good enough, the fact that she's a verbal salad-spinner is not of prime concern to them:)

[XemaSab]

6. You betcha

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