5 US States

Which 5 states in the US have the closest accent to a Canadian accent? Is there one state that has the very closest accent?

nobody has the same accent that french canadian.

Which Canadian accent? People from Newfoundland and the Maritime provinces, for instance, have a very different accent from those out in the West.

I mean the standard newscaster-style accent. Not the more obscure regional accents. The one in the Western part of the country.

I suppose it'd have to be northern states. Possibilities:

Northern Washington/Idaho - Southern BC

Northern Montana -- Southern Alberta/Sasketchewan

Northern N. Dakota, etc. -- Southern Manitoaba, etc.

Eastern Maine -- Western New Brunswick

Definitely not Wisconsin, or at least southern Wisconsin, which takes on strongly Inland North-type features even though it does have things like Canadian Raising, monophthongal tense mid vowels, and like.

What about Minnesota? Isn't it similar to Canada?

Which is closer, a Wisconsin accent or a Coloradoan accent?

I would say, the closest ones are:

1.BC-Washington state (with higher frequency of rounded [Q] cot/caught/Don/Dawn vowels in BC, especially by older women and by younger males) and
2. NorthDakota-Manitoba (Fargo dialect)

///Which is closer, a Wisconsin accent or a Coloradoan accent?

Wisconsin accent is not close to Canadian accents...

Coloradoan accent phonologically is identical, phonetically less so, only some accents are similar to the Coloradoan accent, for example the urban accent of St. John's NF: ball [bAl], boll/bole [bol], bold [bold], bald [bAld]
you can hear it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa3CY9YauGQ

Isn't the Wisconsin accent closer than a Michigan accent though?

How about Niagra Falls, NY vs Hamilton, Ontario

I think the situation in NY/ON is similar to that of Detroit and Windsor.

I think the situation in NY/ON is similar to that of Detroit and Windsor.

Vermont-Anglophone Quebec (Montreal) sound so close, that ABC tv station from Vermont also advertises in Montreal:

http://www.abc22.com/
Burlington, Plattsburgh, Montreal

But newscasters sound the same everywhere.