I've never had much of a Texas accent. For a long time I tried to hide what accent I had so that people wouldn't think differently about me because I had one. Sometimes it surprises people to hear that I'm from Texas and not hear an accent. I guess they think that everyone from Texas talks like a Texan. I do have a slight accent, I think I just hide it more in a work environment. I don't say "y'all" very much, but I've said it a few times recently. Nobody has seemed to notice, but it seems like the kind of thing that people wouldn't expect. I don't know what I've gained by losing my accent. I think people like accents. So, I might start letting my accent out a little bit more, I don't know, I'm just still not sure how I feel about it.