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Wouldn't YOU feign a twangy accent to enhance a dialectic device beginning with 'People said'?

Please put the accent in context! Consider how it was used in the Obama 2007 speech, when Senator Obama was expressing the frustration of Southern folks:

"And that was the right thing to do. When Hurricane Andrew struck in Florida....

(accent begins)

...People said, ''Look at this devastation. We don't expect you to come up with your own money here. Here's the money to rebuild. We're not going to wait for you to scratch it together, because you're part of the American family.''

(and now a heavier, Orleans accent)

'What's happening down in New Orleans? - ''Where's your dollar? Where's your Stafford Act money? It tells me that somehow the people down in New Orleans, they don't care about as much.'"

I think it was brilliant, not disingenuous. Agree?