"NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH, like its British cousin, has many diverse dialects and sub-dialects. Did you know that residents of the San Francisco Bay area generally speak differently from other Californians? Had you heard that people from parts of New Orleans sound like New Yorkers, or that residents of North Carolina's outer banks can sound more like folks from Charleston, South Carolina than other southerners? All this information and more is available on Rick Aschmann's map of English dialects in North America."
From The Economist blog Gulliver
The article refers mainly to Rick Aschmann's rather excellant map called that has links to YouTube video examples
North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns
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