Votes and Vowels: A Changing Accent Shows How Language Parallels Politics

blogs.discovermagazine.com — There's been a good bit of discussion and hand-wringing lately over whether the American public is becoming more and more politically polarized and what this all means for the future of our democracy. You may have wrung your own hands over the issue.
Ben Smith Editor-in-Chief, BuzzFeed @BuzzFeedBen
Interesting piece on diverging Red English vs. Blue English t.co/5cd42ov2
Charlie White Senior Editor, Mashable @charlie_white
RT @JonMwords: “Are we moving toward an era where Americans will speak discernibly red versus blue accents?” t.co/NzPEkBO9
Robert McClendon Government Reporter, Press-Register @RobertMcClendon
RT @patricox: America is not only more polarized politically, it's more polarized linguistically. @soldonlanguage t.co/PdD1phIK
Jon Mitchell @ablaze
“Are we moving toward an era where Americans will speak discernibly red versus blue accents?” t.co/NzPEkBO9
Sean Carroll Blogger, Discover Magazine @seanmcarroll
Pronunciation as political affinity and signaling -- among non-politicians. t.co/A3kJH017
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