Refugee thread!

[Dancefortwo]

Mine is a Carolina girl twang.  As soon as people hear the grits flying, in their minds my IQ drops several dozen points.  I was born in South Carolina, raised in North Carolina, have a B.A. from a respected (and expensive) private college and have a respectable IQ.  Graduated cum laude and was a member of Phi Theta Kappa, Kappa Nu Sigma, Psi Chi and Delta Psi Omega.  I was the department's official tutor for one of the two most difficult psychology courses.  But the accent is never going away, so I suspect I will always be viewed as "less than."  

Of course all that pales by comparison to how much my value as a human being (in the bible-belt) dropped in the minds of the people in Tinytown upon revealing my atheism.

I don't have an accent because I'm from California. So there!