"On Inland Northern and the Factors for Dialect Spread and Shift

donahue
in in "heartland" english: variation and transition in the american midwest

Inland Northern was once considered just a regional dialect, but is now conidered "basic and correct." "General American."

4 reasons for this:
p 52
1. industrial Great Lakes region increased in economic and social power
2. Webster's 2nd Intl Dictionary
3. NBC Pronouncing Dictionary
4. Mass media

p54 N. Inland is used by mass culture, the dialect used away form family
p56-57 people in the 30s went to movies and learned inland n. dialect. Like finishing school
p57-58 inland N. in decline and N Midland on the rise due to "collapse of the rust belt" and social factors