Languages and Linguistics

The Tennessee accent is vastly different from southern Alabama or N. Florida. Texas has a southern drawl unlike any place else. Georgia and the Carolinas border each other but are not even closely the same. Kentucky and W. Virginia are close, but Virginia is very different from them both.
I can usually tell a fake southern accent, but some actors do it very well. A lot of the actors on The Walking Dead are English and they do a pretty good job with rhe southern accents.