A Southern accent has been portrayed on television and movies as everything from slow-witted (Jethro Bodine on “The Beverly Hillbillies”) to fiesty (Scarlett O’Hara) to wise (Andy Griffith). But sexy?

WASHINGTON (7News) — Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine's visits to New York City relatives included being the star of an impromptu novelty show: Her cousin invited over ...

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, which employs more than 4,400, was fixin’ to offer classes on losing a Southern accent until complaints put that horse back in the barn, the Knoxville ...