trailer break: ‘The Blind Side’

--"Wah do they do that, d’y’all think?"

I don't know. I've wondered about that. To do any other accent, actors will practice at length and take voice lessons if necessary. But for Southern accents and dialect, they feel it's sufficient to just wing it.

Being from Texas, I almost always cringe at how Hollywood portrays us and our state. When it comes to portraying southerners, they should do it the same way they do in movies set in a foreign country, speak English without any strong geographically-based accent.