This is interesting. According to the quiz, I have a "neutral" accent, which is associated with the lower Midwest, Pennsylvania, western Maryland, and northern West Virginia. I have never lived in this area, but the description does say I could just as easily be from somewhere else and that I may have moved around quite a bit as a child, which is true. But I challenge the notion that people from this part of the country don't have a regional accent. Many folks from the region, especially its southernmost reaches, speak with what sounds to me like a slight southern accent.
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I got Neutral and it pretty much fits.... I've lived in Texas just about my entire life and have had people ask if I was from California since I don't have much of an accent.
@fallnhope That's interesting. I used to live in Texas and I found that not everyone raised in the state has a Texas accent, or at least not much of one. A lot of people I knew from Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio did indeed sound "neutral", or like someone from the West Coast.
