Creole/French Creole had always been strong in the gulf region of the states going from heavy to light in dialect and pronounciation. Dix, you live in Alabama, you never visited Baldwin or Mobile counties? You can also hear that accent in Pensacola Florida.

"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green