Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world. A series of research papers released late last year chronicles the diminishment of the Southern accent among Black residents of the Atlanta area, white working-class people in the New Orleans area and people who grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. More than 5.8 million people have moved to the South in the 2020s. That's four times the combined amount of the three other regions. But one study author notes the Southern accent is unlikely to disappear completely.