and worked on his voice to make it sound more like an easterner? Far fetched but that’s all I can think of, unless one or both of his parents are New Englanders or he spent a good deal of time in New England growing up.
BTW, when I took a linguistic class in college I found out it’s called a “dialect” within a country. An accent is used when referring to outside the country, ala a “French accent.”
Okay, that’s my lesson for the day, class!