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Where did Dylan get his twang?

On assignment for The Atlantic, correspondant Graeme Wood travels to Hibbing, thinking he might discover the origins of Bob Dylan's particular accent. What he gets is an earful, but not of what you might think.

In truth, Sarah Palin has more of a Minnesota accent than Dylan does.

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