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I once did one of those quizzes that figures out where your American accent is from and I got mostly LA and midwest. Makes sense since I learned from watching TV shows.
Wait how does that work?
Dialect tests. Think about how someone from boston might say "park" like "pahk" vs other parts of the country, or if someone uses "y'all" where they might be from. The way people pronounce o,a, ai, ough, augh type of sounds is very telling. Also phrases are very regional. There are many studies that compile that data. One famous dataset is used in a Times article that is behind a paywall, here are some people talking about it: https://peabodyawards.com/nytimesdialectquiz/
Another random one from buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewziegler/dialect-quiz
And babbel: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/american-accent-quiz
Or just search for dialect quiz.
The Buzzfeed one got where I've lived most of my life. Wasn't sure where it would say since I moved around a lot as a kid.