I came out as "Midland", too. Like Nan, I grew up all over the place (although my graph shows heavily on "the West" and "Inland North", which seems about right). Accents fascinate me and, given the chance to do it all over again, I might have gone into linguistics. Then again, I just love words, so maybe that's an outflow of how many different ways there are to say a word.
In another thread, Jenn (EditorJax) had mentioned that there are those who pronounce "Washington" with an "r" in it (Warshington). My paternal grandmother would have been one of them, she frequently had hard "r's" in her words. She grew up in rural southeast Idaho and she did her "warshing", ate (et) "carn" on the cob and was always careful not to step in cow "manar". Curiously, while two of my uncles did have that accent, my father never has (at least, not while I've known him).
