According to Hannity/Carlson, I'm a racist or bigot.
I'm from Chicago, born, raised and lived there for 37 of my almost 48 years. Though I've been in AZ long enough that most of my Chicago accent is gone, when I get together with anyone from Chicago (especially my son) that accent mysteriously comes back with a vengeance.
It's not a conscious act, but it's noticeable enough that one particular friend of mine that was born/raised in AZ starts laughing and mutters 'Da Bears'. Yes, we sound stereotypically like an old SNL skit.
This also means that anyone of any region with a discernible accent or mannerisms is, in fact, a racist or bigot. All my friends from the east coast are especially racist and bigoted. My family from Louisiana...racists. My friends from Mexico...bigots and racists. All those friends from NY??? Holy hot damn...total friggin' racists!!!
It's so sad that we can't all talk like 'normal white folk' like Hannity and Carlson.
I guess there's only one thing left to say, Sean and Tucker? Yous guys are assholes. Fuck yous!!! Now, get me a damned Italian beef before I smash yer stupid face into a brick wall.
DA BEARS!!!!! 
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Her boyfriend is from Jersey...it's interesting to see who gets the last word when we all get together. My poor husband is from SoCal. He spends most of the time trying unsuccessfully to sneak in a word or two. 
Same thing happens to me, although I've moved back into the NYC suburbs after living in Cali for a while. There are lots of people around me to have "cawfee" with "aftah we wahk our dawgs". If you heard my "natural" voice you would swear I took elocution lessons. Oddly enough though, after being raised by an Irish woman, and having spent a fair deal of summers in Ireland as a child, I find that when I am back in Ireland, or spending time with my Irish relations, I begin to speak as though I were born and bred in County Clare.
Or, as dey say from my home town "go figyah"! 
...here in AZ. They all talk funny. 
A combo Bronx/Irish accent would make you a foreigner in AZ. Bring yer papers. 
Many years ago, when I moved from Philly to San Francisco, everyone thought I was a New Yorker from Brooklyn.
I had to tell them that, though Philly and New York have SIMILAR accents, Philly people do NOT
drop the "R", as in "New Yawk"...They do, however, have that "aw" sound as in "cawfee" and "dawgs", lol
Truthfully, though, EVERY area of this country has an accent!...Like Joe Philly, I've been away from the hometown and lived
in Chicago for 15 years, but some here STILL tell me I have an "East Coast accent". Chicagaoans have a unique accent
as well. Like a lot of people west of Pittsburgh, for instance, they say these three words exactly the same way:
Mary, Merry, and Marry. When my Midwest spouse teases me about some left over Philly-isms,
I remind him that at least "East Coast people know how to pronounce the "short" form of the vowels "a" and "e'.
In places west, they seem to have this problem. 
Yeah...I've been away too long!
