My pop was often mistaken for being a brit but he was a southern boy born and bred in Mississippi. He was a PH.D theoretical mathematician and attended the same Swiss school that all the great scientists went to including Einstein. As soon as people found out his accent was actually southern then they typically treated him like he was a racist hick, which he was anything but.
Having an issue and perception of someone based on the way they pronounce words is just inane.
