People have the impression that all have missing teeth and speak a gnarly ignorant sounding language. There are a few people like that, but they only appear on TV when interviewed by newsmedia about some local catastrophe. I live in the Carpet Capital of the World and speak a lovely southern lingo. People ask me to tell them a story so they can listen to my accent. When I was in New York once the man at the news stand of 42nd street asked me if I was from Atlanta, Ga.