Most of the big important prestigious schools are in the Northeast -- Massachusetts especially -- so a variation on that accent often goes along with the American upper class, or at least the public perceptions of it.
There's also, I should note, a very specific Southern accent that goes along with it, too -- the South is a huge place and a Georgia accent is very different from a Louisiana accent is very different from a Texas accent (hell, there's a ton of variation just within Texas). I'd say a kind of Georgia/Virginia accent is associated with the old old old upper classes of the South (for the obvious reason that Virginia was where most of the aristocracy has been from the eighteenth century onward: see the Pages, Tuckers, Nelsons, etc), and a Texas variation for the more new-money families.
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Date: 2007-05-02 01:29 pm (UTC)There's also, I should note, a very specific Southern accent that goes along with it, too -- the South is a huge place and a Georgia accent is very different from a Louisiana accent is very different from a Texas accent (hell, there's a ton of variation just within Texas). I'd say a kind of Georgia/Virginia accent is associated with the old old old upper classes of the South (for the obvious reason that Virginia was where most of the aristocracy has been from the eighteenth century onward: see the Pages, Tuckers, Nelsons, etc), and a Texas variation for the more new-money families.