And if you have a really practiced ear, you can pin down the part of the state. I knew someone once who could peg where in North Carolina someone was from to within about 30 miles. Even today, with more mobility and the neutralizing effects of television, a western NC accent sounds nothing like an eastern NC one.
My Mother, who is from Pitt County NC, calls eastern NC coastal a "tidewater" accent, and she says it goes on up to Virginia.
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