He speaks exactly how everybody spoke, including me, when I lived on the Alabama-Georgia border in the early 70's...I Needed to talk like that because it was after the Selma Marches & people who talked like Northeners were being disappeared, like a few of the Freedom Riders. Your ignorance of regional dialect is astoundin' to me.......
Or, yer eegnerrance uv reejunal dylect is jest astowndin ta me......

@AnneWimsey Oh, I'm pretty good, or was, at Celtic Island dialects. As a Canadian, am I meant to know American dialects. But then, Americans do have a tendency to believe they know all.

I grew up with that in Georgia. Didn't speak with such an accent myself, but my cousins did.

@BudFrank We all have accents and as I said he might well find my accent as strange as I find his. Actually what I find weirder is how country singers all seem to feel country music can only be done in Southern accents. As I grew up in the old world I was aware that accents could easily change/modify from village to village. I grew up knowing a couple of village people who had never been further than the nearest market towns 7 miles away. Over hundreds of years, if not thousands, each village developed its own accent. Most of England was covered by Saxons and Angles settled into a farming life after the Romans. The Normans conquered but did not displace those farmers. My village had an abbey dating back to 800 or 900.

Yes indeed