Reply #33: go down to southern Minnesota, in farm country

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my ex-in-laws (from New Prague) have accents very similar to the Fargo ones, but not as Scandahoovian. They're German/Czech, so they're a bit more central European sounding, but they still have many of those same "Minnesohta-isms" that you heard in the film.

It seems that higher education and moving to the "big city" tends to level off the regional accents here, much like what happens when students in the UK go off to the Oxbridge schools. They may go in with a regional twang, but they leave speaking the very proper "RP" English taught at the universities.