[onedoug]

...Oak Ridge National Laboratory wanted to crack down on workers who have Southern accents by holding a “Southern Accent Reduction” course.

How about accent reduction and speech therapy for blacks? Especially black southerners. Makes as much if not greater sense.

[cva66snipe]

I think this is coming from appeasing some workers there who put extra “R’s” in their words and have a real foreign accent. :>} Tennesseans ain’t the only ones a working thar is a what I’m a sayun.