Sounds a bit like you re working on a script... You definitely can t do Baltimore or Philadelphia if you re talking about working class people. If you re going for more educated folks, you can place it almost anywhere, but you d need to avoid extremes like Boston or NYC. A lot of what would help you would be cities that have a large percentage of the population from elsewhere. Washington DC comes to mind. Dialects are also a bit less distinct in places like Buffalo, NY, though it will have a bit of the Great Lakes Vowel Shift which makes the vowels in all and father sound a lot alike.Now conservative makes it all harder because then you re talking about going south probably. Virginia is a slightly red state and has fairly neutral accents in some of the larger cities like Richmond, though you ll get stronger accents from the old-money families and in more rural and/or working class areas. There are a lot of transplants in some of the NC areas just east of the Smokies: Charlotte Greensboro. Dialects will tend to get stronger further south, and you move out of snow country.A big influence will be class. Get back to me if you have more questions...
Seriously?
you are a racist