I'd heard that New Orleans residents are more New York- than Southern-sounding. Recently, I saw some of the Khan Academy videos, and noticed that Salman Khan, who, as Wikipedia says, is from New Orleans, does not sound even remotely Southern. Is this the typical New Orleans accent? Here's one of his videos.
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I'll agree that he doesn't sound remotely Southern, nor does he have a New Orleans accent.
Here is a montage of New Orleans accents.
Khan's accent is fairly neutral to these Midwestern ears.