If you make judgements about someone based on what they are wearing or how their hair looks or how they talk, you have an excellent chance of being wrong. Do southern accents work against us? What about the other dialects we speak? Do people judge us based on the words we use? The answer to all those, unfortunately is yes. What can we do about that moving forward? Well we talked with professor of linguistics at North Carolina State University and world's leading fan of North Carolina accents, Dr. Walt Wolfram about how we can get beyond being judged by the dialects we use.