When we make fun of an accent, or even just want to signal it, we choose the strongest version, and for the New England Coastal accent the usual example is "Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd." Which is fine, and you will find the occasional person whose speech is that dramatically accented. But more often, one detects a trace of accents, so that in going to the South Shore, Cape, and Islands I would often hear cah-ur, or cah'r, where the "r" is much more prominent and the extended a with the h more muted. I did not hear any "-er's" instead of a's (Cuber, tuber, Florider) except in the word "idea," which is going to be the last place it disappears from.
Here's the American dialect map again, for those who forgot how much you liked it.
And Casey Affleck with a beauty of that accent, for those who forgot how much they liked that.
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