What's Happening to the Way We Speak in Georgia?

This week, I'm speaking with University of Georgia Linguistics Professor Jon Forrest. At the least, he's finding evidence the Georgia accent is changing and, in some cases, disappearing. Several factors to cite, including a large number of people moving into Georgia from other parts of the country, language is constantly morphing, and younger speakers not picking up the dialect. We discuss the number of people who choose to sound southern and how making that choice is perfectly fine. (Look at the number of TV shows sporting Hollywood southern accents.) I was surprised to find that the accent we know best here is relatively recent historically, though some of the first roots can be traced back to colonial ties to England and Ireland.