Chicago-area accent - a relative of the Minnesota accent?

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Its all related.  Da bärss and daaaaa bullssssss becomes some ruddy faced blonde chick with severe features in Wisconsin (holy creeeeeeyaaaap you guys I just drank 16 apple pie shots with everclear...WisCAAAAHNsin forr ever!)

It then gets quieter, liltier, and more swallowed so it sounds like you're talking in a chant.

http://youtu.be/x-XEHwUBubk

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Chicago, like many cities around the Great Lakes, has the Northern Cities Vowel Shift.  Its spread is something like this, although I've usually seen a tendril extend to St. Louis:



Although Minnesota is starting to be affected by some of the changes that occurred in the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, it also has some differences of its own from surrounding locations, as well as some changes that are oozing in from the west.  I'd put the dividing line between the dialect that characterizes Minneapolis and the dialect that characterizes Chicago at somewhere around Eau Claire.  See also Benson, Fox, and Balkman (2011).

Why isn't our accent spreading? its such a sexy, edgy accent (now dontcha know)

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