As locals gossip beneath the low-beamed ceiling of a coffee shop, I ask Audrey Ann Masur to speak up.

"I'm always trying to speak more quietly, so I'm not getting that stereotype," the 37-year-old from Indiana whispers across our table with a nervous smile, her decaf coffee steaming in the autumn chill.

We're in the Cotswolds, an 800-square-mile pocket of English countryside dotted with towns and villages. Masur and her young family moved here from South Carolina five years ago, when her husband was reposted by the US military.

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Her accent has prompted older locals to corner her at the grocery store and press her on her political views, Masur says. So, she figures it's best to keep her vo

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