Like Australian English and English English, the English of the coastal Deep South is historically non-rhotic: it drops the sound of final /r/ before a consonant or a word boundary, so that guard sounds similar to God (but the former has a longer vowel than the latter) and sore like saw. Intrusive /r/, where an /r/ sound is inserted at a word break between two vowel sounds (”lawr and order”) is not a feature of coastal SAE, as it is in many other non-rhotic accents. Today only some areas like New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, and Norfolk have non-rhotic speakers (Labov, Ash, and Bomberg 2006: 47-48). Non-rhoticity is rapidly disappearing from almost all Southern accents, to a greater degree than it has been lost in the other traditionally non-rhotic dialects of the East Coast such as New York and Boston. The remaining non-rhotic SAE speakers also use intrusive r, like New England and New York City.

New southern american english:

The merger of [ɛ] and [ɪ] before nasal consonants, so that pen and pin are pronounced the same, but the pin-pen merger is not found in New Orleans, Savannah, or Miami (which does not fall within the Southern dialect region). This sound change has spread beyond the South in recent decades and is now found in parts of the Midwest and West as well.

Yat:

In and around New Orleans, you can hear an accent similar to that of New York City. It is referred to as Yat, from the phrases such as “Where y’at?” for “How are you?” Additionally, many unique terms such as “neutral ground”[12] for the median of a divided street (Louisiana/Southern Mississippi) or “banquette”[13] for a sidewalk (Southern Louisiana/Eastern Texas) are found here.

Creole:

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Louisiana Creole French (Kreyol Lwiziyen) is a French-based creole language spoken in Louisiana. It has many resemblances to other French creoles in the Caribbean. While Cajun French and Louisiana Creole have had a significant influence on each other, they are unrelated. While Cajun is basically a French dialect with grammar similar to standard French, Louisiana Creole applies a French lexicon to a system of grammar and syntax which is quite different from French grammar.

There should be a word for these people . . .

Speakers of what’s perceived as non-standard English, whether from Brooklyn or Harlem, Anchorage or Charlotte, Liverpool or Lisson Grove, are poor, foreign, other, uppity abusers of English and the welfare system, no matter how many degrees they have or the professional heights they’ve scaled. It’s a legacies pat on the back to himself and his mates that they’re made men and the doors are closed.

I hope Tavis Smiley’s people give Georgie a call and “a” invitation to come onto his show. Let him try the same thing in less assured surroundings. Humpty-Dumpty, meat Wall.