Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Southern England” in chapter 2.18 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2:

...orresponding preference for certain austerities of pronunciation. The South, with Virginia as the speech centre, differed from New England in pronunciation not as widely but in much the same way as Southern England differed from Northern England. The Middle States, with New York as the speech centre, was, like Midland England, intermediate in speech habits as well as in geographical position. Even today if ...
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