Is George Bush's TEXAS ACCENT for real?

[questioner]

Ever notice that the longer George Bush is in Washington the more extreme his TEXAS ACCENT has become? He loves to talk like a Texas Rancher! Though the funny thing is no one else in his family speaks with a Texas Accent. I have heard his brother Jeb talk- he has no real accent. His Father and Mother speak like they are from New England. His sister has no accent.

George Bush lived in Texas for awhile but grew up in New England and went to college at Yale University in CT.

Is it possible that George Bush's accent is a big fake? Just so he can play the role of a Regular Joe?

 

[Christine]

We in America love a good cowboy!

 

[tlgoblue]

Who cares? And yes, It most certainly could be real. I have many friends who grew up in the midwest and have adopted all sorts of accents. Actually, I don't think his accent is very thick.

 

[brerrabbit]

Said it before and I'll say it again, "George Bush aint from Texas" I've got a Texas accent and it's real and it don't sound nothing like GW's.

 

[tlgoblue]

Would that be the east Texas twang or the west Texas Drawl?

 

[monkeyboy]

Isn't he from Connecticut?

 

[SherryNC]

Who cares? And yes, It most certainly could be real. I have many friends who grew up in the midwest and have adopted all sorts of accents. Actually, I don't think his accent is very thick.

I agree.

 

[KMH1]

Technically, it's a dialect, not an accent.

Amy

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

I was born in Georgia and spent my early childhood on Army bases in Oklahoma and Germany where my Ohio-born father was stationed, and lived in Georgia from the time I was 9 until I moved to VA when I was 31.

I've had people tell me they love my southern accent.

I've had people tell me they don't hear much of a southern accent.

And I've heard both from people in the south and I've heard both from people outside the south.

I would guess that, with Texas and New England influences, GWB's accent comes and goes much like mine does.

 

[inaminute]

He was born in Connecticut but the family moved when he was a baby.

 

[Microcell]

I grew up 1/2 hour from Canada, and moved to the midwest when I was 16. My oot and aboots are all gone until I go back to Michigan. It may just kick into high gear when he is there in Crawford.

 

[tekmom]

He's all hat and no cattle.

 

[mcnuss]

When he was campaigning here in NH the first time, he had no twang at all. All Yankee...

Then he headed South, and took the campaign national, and all of a sudden he was y'all-ing all over the place. It was pretty funny.

One of the public radio guys here did a piece on this. He called it the Faux Bubba effect. His premise was that with a well-spoken mother and father, and an exclusive prep school and Ivy League education, a man like GWB would have to be trying in order to butcher the English language like he does. I mean, come on -- Liberian for Librarian?? Isn't he married to one?? (Librarian that is!! )

 

[chadfromdallas]

He's all hat and no cattle.

Bingo. Fake cowboy and "dialect" to boot

 

[HonestAbe]

Really, who cares about this? I mean we got people in Africa dying of thirst and hunger - North Korea wants to nuke us into oblivion and Janet Reno is still alive and kicking. And your worried about Bush's accent. Geez. Now Janet Reno - she's got a nice voice but she has what you might call a face that's perfect for radio.

Seriously, I hadnt noticed it changed. He always sounded a little hickish to me but what does a back woods hick like me know....

 

[nativetxn]

I think the accent is real. President Bush moved to Midland, TX when he was 7 and actually grew up in Texas. Once you get that accent you have to work hard to get rid of it. I got rid of mine...well, until I go home to Texas and then it comes right back

Katholyn

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Then he headed South, and took the campaign national, and all of a sudden he was y'all-ing all over the place. It was pretty funny.

My accent/dialect changes all of the time---when I talk to my friends with deep southern accents---I start talking more southern--but around others..I drop my twang without even thinking about it.

He could be the same way.

Also--I had heard somewhere along the way--that those who's accents change so easily with locale....means they are insecure.

I have always hoped this wasn't the case. But maybe there is truth to it for me and for GWB.

I actually never noticed an accent with GWB---just how he speaks...it always sounds the same to me. I never assumed he had a "Texan" cowboyish flair to his dialect at all.

 

[Pugdog007]

It always sounds the same to me.

I grew up in a family with 4 kids and we all have different speech patterns. My brother and I both travel a lot and don't have much of an accent, one of my sisters has a bit of a Southern twang and the other sister is full-on Loretta Lynn southern. So it really isn't unusual to have different accents within the same family.

 

[Peter Pirate]

"Who cares"??? Come on guys, this is a harmless yet interesting and possibly funny little conversation. Do some of you have to defend dubya so rabidly even when there is no real charge leveled?

Of course it doesn't matter if it's real or not but it's kind of funny to hear that it all could be bs (bu****)...

 

[Charade]

"Who cares"??? Come on guys, this is a harmless yet interesting and possibly funny little conversation. Do some of you have to defend dubya so rabidly even when there is no real charge leveled?

Be veeewy veeeewy quiet, I'm huntin' rabbids.