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DU used to have a strong one. If you had a Southern (US) accent, you were a rube, a dolt, a redneck.

Stupid, maybe troglodyte. Carter, was, apparently, with his degree in nuclear engineering (often reduced to "engineering", but which was a B.S. and later a 6-month certificate program at Union College in Jersey; his B.S. was from 1946, Naval Academy, "nuclear engineering" was very much not a thing, much subsumed into a B.S. degree).

But long past Carter, after I was a DUer, Southern dialect = idiot. (Not "idjit", which is note quite "idiot!" but tempered by the Irish "eejit", Supernatural notwithstanding, at least in my idiolect ... =/= "idiot lect", whatever that may be.)