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I'm from the only state that matters. Washington.

Everybody else can bow the fuck down.
 
For me it's fairly accurate - I'm in Ohio and it said I speak like someone from that area of the country

It said Grand Rapids, MI and Toledo and Akron
 
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My results were fairly accurate: California - specifically Santa Clarita, which is about 100 miles south of where I live. My town is considered SoCal, but a few miles more north and you're in CenCal, which is where I grew up. Settlers heading west moved into the San Joaquin Valley during the Oklahoma Dustbowl and so a lot of Oklahoman inflections bled into the regional dialect over time.

I've heard various things about my "accent" from different people: I've been told I have no accent, fellow gamers in Vent have told me they hear "the beach" in my voice, when I was living in Nevada I had been asked on more than one occasion if I was Irish or British, and when I lived in South Texas, everyone just assumed I lived there all my life. Go figure.
 
Well it said I was from Scottsdale, Albuquerque, and/or Buffalo New York. I've never been to Buffalo or Albuquerque, but I do live in Southern Arizona so Scottsdale isn't far off. South Dakota is red as fuck as well, which is where I spent most of my childhood, and so is most of New Jersey. That's actually kind of surprising because even though both my parents (and their entire families) are from New Jersey I didn't think I picked up any speaking habits from them at all.
 
My speech patterns seem to indicate that I'm either from St. Louis, Missouri, or Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Not too far off, I'm from central Oklahoma.
 
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It said I was from Spookane, Buffalo, and Grand Rapids. Since I'm a Michigan native and lived there all my life, it appears they got the whole Michigan part right.
 
Well, my results were on target, Baltimore/New Jersey and I'm from Maryland. Though the parts about mischief night might not mean much, because I've never actually heard of anyone taking part in mischief night, and I think I've only heard the term from TV.
 
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For all you American folk out there. My mom found this NY Times test that's supposed to determine where you're from based on your dialectal tendencies.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

This is my map. I've never actually been to Texas, surprisingly enough, but then again my mother - who also scored with hers all in Texas - isn't from there either so I guess it's some north-south amalgam that leads to us being dropped in Texas, haha. (When my mom took the quiz as if she were using her childhood dialect, it dropped her in Pittsburgh, which is the actual city of her childhood, and my dad took the test once and landed right in Mississippi, which is where he's from.)

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Here's mine. It thinks I'm from San Antonio, Plano, or Irving, Texas. It also has a big chunk in south Louisiana kind of centered around Lafayette and Baton Rouge, which isn't too far off actually. I was born in New Orleans, my mother grew up there and Baton Rouge, and I grew up near DC which probably explains most of the hot spots.
 
Mine said Boston/Wocester Massachusetts. I was born in a Boston suburb, but raised in Maine. New England shares a lot of its colloquialisms so it's pretty spot on.
 
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