Everyone has an accent. I can’t tell you how many times when I was living in Michigan people told me that people from Michigan have no accent, but yet, they do, and so does everyone else on this Q who said they don’t.
My accent depends a little on who I am speaking with. If I am talking to a New Yorker, I sound more NY, if I am talking to a midwesterner I pick that up a little, and down n the souht a use y’all. Mostly I am a Ny accent though, it is more of my default accent I guess. Sometimes I can talk to someone for a quite a while and then I will say a give away word and they will notice the NY in there like coffee (cau-fee) or January (I don’t even know how to spell, it is more like an emphasis in the middle of the word. Think Joy Behar, but not as severe. One thing I don’t do that is NY, especially the Bronx is make my a’s r’s at the end of a word. My mom says sofer and idear instead of sofa and idea). Midwest give away words are words with ou, like out and about and tend to be a little more nasal, true in parts of Canada also. Which brings me back to Michigan where they also say creek like crik, and roof like ruff.
Don’t even get me started on the different words used around the country…actually I did a thread on that if you are interested. The responses were awesome.