Hey there.. so... In the past, I concluded an English class with good grades at that time and I was just proud of myself about that and started working in a company where I needed to interact by video conference with Texans and New Yorkers workmates once a month for results follow-ups.

In the first video conference I couldn't understand at all the Texans workmates of my company (see I'm not talking here about all Texans in Texas, just about those Texans ex-workmates of mine)... they spoke too fast and with too many slangs for me to catch up... as for the new yorkers I could understand better.. so .. a told a friend about the situation and she gave me a precious tip for the TEXAS challenge :p ... she told me to hear the music of bands from the south of US.. like Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and stuff.... I remember to think "what a crazy idea, I don't even like this kind of music", but I did it a try.. and after reading the lyrics and hearing the music for a while I really started to understand the Texans guys better and talking with another friend about the improvement that I had by hearing south rock he gave me the challenge of trying to learn RAP music from east and west coast artists... I accepted and by trying to sing along (like a crazy uncoordinated fool I admit :p ) I think that I had a huge improvement in speaking and listening... 

So this is why I vote Texas as a hard accent state in my opinion ... (I just managed it by hearing not exactly local but south music)

What state do you guys vote?