that's kinda funny, because i was just explaining to my mother-in-law that i think that the only people in the usa who don't have accents are californians. accents i like: russian, kiwi, spanish (spain), argentinian accents i don't: NorEast American (any of them), french (too phlegmy), german (too gutteral), and oklahoman.
There's a new accent emerging out here (california)lately. It sounds like the roof of everyone'es mouth hurts; " Pre'dent Bush ageed 'at da warin' 'rac will tay sac'fises to win". Even the people (some) that do the news are talking like this. It's like everybody's doing a really lame buckwheat imitation, or there's an epidemic of undiagnosed downs-syndrome.