Americans, can you locate this accent?

Mayberry would be my guess.

southern us

he sounds like Gomer Pyle

Southern, I guessed.

I'd guess Southern Appalachian or Smoky Mountain.

[quote]he sounds like Gomer Pyle

OMG, yes - even looks like him.

I think R4 is bang on target.

R4 Yep, my guess is North Carolina in the Smokies..

↑ "moun-ain towk!"

Agreed - Appalachian of some kind. Western NC, Virginia or Eastern Tennesee. I'm leaning towards Eastern Tennessee.

Western North Carolina.

He has the type of accent that screws some people up when talking about "gay-voice," there are many straight southern men who like the guy in OP's video who speak with a fairly high pitched sing-song type voice, with a great deal of up-speak.

I used to live in Knoxville, TN--that is indeed a Southern Appalachian accent.

I wonder how easily a French or Italian person would understand it.

When i moved to Knoxville in 1999, I had a lot of trouble with it myself, and I've always lived in the united states--I had grown up in Minnesota, and lived on both coasts, but this was so strange I sometimes had to ask people to slow down as they spoke. What always surprised me was the emphasis they gave certain words: they would pronounce "July" as "JEW-lye."

I am a teacher, and one of my most reflective students who had a strong accent said he thought it was most negatively marked accent in the USA--that at least people with thick Delta accents or thick Georgian or South Carolinian accents sounded courtly, but he thought he just sounded like a dumb hick.

When I lived in New York I met quite a few people who came from places with very strong "hick" accents who rejected them even as children and sounded almost English.

Southern Appalachian - phonemes and intonation rooted in Scot-Irish (Ulster) settlers' accents - hiding and stewing in those isolated mountain areas.

I thought it sounded like Arkansas and I was close:

Northeast Texas

[quote] Lance Bush

[quote] At a young age I found myself interested in just about anything that was mechanical, started out with building low rider bikes with my dad, to working on go karts, restoring tractors in high school, to trying to keep my first car running an trying to fix it up with what little money I had at the time.

[quote] Graduate of Rivercrest high school in 2004, attended Wyotech in Laramie Wy, an then attended a BMW step program in Oxnard ca, to become a certified BMW technician. My family is from Bogata, an I have lived her all my lifer other than than the 2 years I attended college, love my small town an the people that live there.

[quote] I have lived her all my lifer

he even types with an accent

My first thought was Tennessee.

It sounds like a Tennessee accent to me.

The plates on the car say Oklahoma.

I once hooked up with a guy from Mississippi. I couldn't understand a thing he was saying, so I just stuck my cock in his mouth to shut him up.

ROP

Bogata, Texas....It's a father and son team that collect relics.