Tidewater English

This is the aural equivalent of a color shift, a glimpse of the rainbow spectrum of the transition of English to American accents. Tidewater English, the peculiar dialect spoken along the Chesapeake Bay in pockets in Maryland and Virginia, sounds to me like the true median meeting point between West Country English and the "Old South" variety of the Southern Accent.

The Story of English

An excerpt from one of the tv series that had a huge formative influence on me...