Speaking is a lost art here better luck texting

Not quite that harsh. More like "well aren't you just special/precious". Definitely implies that the recipient needs a special blessing for some reason.

A southerner just would not ever be that harsh, at least not to your face. Our rules of etiquette do not allow strong language of any type around ladies or children. Seriously, I've known grown men to get whooped for cussing in the presence of a lady. And all females are ladies in public unless they prove otherwise and then they are shunned in polite company.

Or at least that is how I was raised. As a result we have quite a few hidden meaning phrases in our lexicon.

Some of us though learned that code switching is a thing as well. The men folk had a language not used in the house or at church.

I’m in south central Illinois and I can tell right away if someone is from Chicago.
We get ALOT of them here at lake Shelbyville..
The locals here do get a little annoyed because they like to talk a little to loud,, especially when they are floating the river.

Figured out the "bless your heart" thing....words don't always say what they mean...

We have a few within Wisconsin. There is a northern swath that is similar to the U.P. of Michigan and northwards into Canada. There always was a south Milwaukee (and south of Milwaukee) accent with a whole set of expressions to go with it. Over time, larger cities get diluted with accents from all over the country and all over the world, so are not always typical of the rest of a state.

When we get to northwest Ontario, the folks there say I'm the only cheesehead without an accent. Must be my love of the north woods.

I don't have an accent. All the news media talks like us in WI, therefore everyone else has an accent, not us...."keep er movin"

I can easily tell a Portlander from a Oregonian

I don’t have an accent but I have been told that it sounds like to do because I talk fast. Whatever that means. lol

I'm pretty sure even the French don't spell it that way ~

Yeah, and I was a dumb Yankee who thought that meant something thoughtful, until two southerners I was seated at the table with told me better