fake Southern accent caller?

[Citizen Space]

At ~4:25AM (EST, I do believe) Sat. Jan 28
I'm thinking one guy was using a fake Southern accent. (Not that I'm great at knowing Southern accents.)
Maybe a Southerner out there could tell.

[Ben Shockley]

At ~4:25AM (EST, I do believe) Sat. Jan 28
I'm thinking one guy was using a fake Southern accent. (Not that I'm great at knowing Southern accents.)
Maybe a Southerner out there could tell.

I'm guessing that you're talking about the guy who claimed to be with a crew who went around to prep race tracks, and seemed to be suggesting that they were somehow preventing rainfall...?
As an Alabama native and ex- Linguistics student, I'll accept that challenge.

Yes, there was something weird about that voice.  First-- I think the whole call was a goof.  And that would fit with the idea that the guy was faking a voice, but not too well.
The guy sounded actually "Southern," but he definitely wasn't "natural."  It's just remotely possible that he might have a speech impairment.  It's more likely that he was faking, and if so, I can't quite say what he might have been trying to  sound like.   If he was trying to mimic someone he knows who he perceives as speaking that way, he was probably "drifting" either toward caricature, or toward dialects/accents he's more comfortable mimicking.   Either way, he seemed to be somewhat aimlessly mixing dialects/accents: I thought I heard elements of North Carolina piedmont, Virginia Tidewater, old-time "coastal city," and just plain "low-country genteel."  Someone could incorporate --or even synthesize-- those pronunciations and mannerisms without even consciously knowing what they were.

So, instead of "guy using a fake Southern accent," I'd call him a "Southern guy doing an ad hoc fake character voice."

[Morgus]

At ~4:25AM (EST, I do believe) Sat. Jan 28
I'm thinking one guy was using a fake Southern accent. (Not that I'm great at knowing Southern accents.)
Maybe a Southerner out there could tell.

was that the guy who was very hard to understand that kept saying "suh" a lot?
there were some other southern sounding callers including a woman in Louisiana last night too.

[Scully]

I didn't listen to most of the Rob Simone/Chemtrails show, but I've always been interested in linguistics and enjoyed Ben Shockley's list of different dialects/accents above.

Reminded me of the time I had to use a friend to "translate" between me and her aunt, who was visiting from Tidewater Virginia.  I assume my drawl is from the land of my childhood, Texas, but it's probably also mixed with Tennessee talk after 35 years of living here.  While I could understand all but about one word per sentence the visitor was speaking, she told her niece she couldn't understand me at all.   

That said, I'm regularly embarrassed by the high percent of "Southern-sounding" callers who approximate Simple George's IQ. I want to scream out that not everyone south of the Mason-Dixon Line is a Gomer Pyle knockoff, no matter what their accent!