I live where the South, West and Midwest meet (or collide). Believe me, there are many different "Southern accents." A person from Texas doesn't sound like a person from Tennessee, and a person from South Carolina doesn't sound like a person from Tennessee.

Many southerners have beautiful speech, and I like to listen to it.

I bet most non-southerners get their ideas of the South from TV and movies, most of which are made (and acted in) by non-southerners.

The other web site mentioned "Dukes of Hazzard," a show I watched once. I really had to laugh at the sight of the pick-up truck tootling along while the banjo played. Instead of driving through the lush, beautiful landscape of the south, it was barreling down a dusty road in the barren, scrubby desert of southern California. Oh well, it was cheaper to do it that way.

The site mentioned pen/pin. That's why some people have to say "stick pin" vs "ink pin".

Going the other way, I have a Battlefield Band album where Alan Reid sings;

It's oot the barn and o'er the hell (hill)
Through the dark and there's the stell (still)...