[twigs]

Some have a very deep accent in VA. I don't. I'm from Roanoke and once when I was visiting, a friend of my mother's called and I nearly hung up the phone on her because I did not understand who she asked for. It was the deepest accent I had ever heard, although it was different from the Scarlet O'Hara type. Funny story. I used to work for the Valley Forge Convention & Visitors Bureau and when people called, I would ocassionally get: "Did I call the right region?" So I must have kept more accent than I realized but I don't hear it.

[Hawkeye's Girl]

Some have a very deep accent in VA.

Totally! I'm from Minnesota, and when I tried to order something over the phone from a company down there, I could barely understand the woman who took my order since her accent was so thick.

Of course, she couldn't really understand me either :)