Y'all ain't gonna like hearing it. It's worse news than an empty jug of tea on a hot summer day. But researchers have confirmed that the famous southern drawl heard across the U.S. sunbelt states for generations and generations is becoming an endangered species. It's starting to disappear in favor of a more mainstream American accent. 

I hope not. I like the southern drawl. I like the regional dialects and sounds and vocabularies. And I love it when we're all together in one room talking to each other in our respective native tongues. 

The shifting population across the country is starting to take a toll on linguistics. Folks from the northeast moving down south and blending the local sound ("Pahk the cah in Chahltson Hahbah, y'all), and of course native southerners hearing words pronounced on tv and in the media when they're still just learning to speak have taken its toll on the traditional Sounds of the South.