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Growing up, "y'all" as plural was evidence of proper West Plains heritage, while "all y'all" was scornful silliness. I can picture my grandmother scrunching her face and pretending to spit as she discusses it. She also had no patience for the East Texas tendency to repeat everything three times for emphasis. "Male strip show, dance show, male strippers" is very East Texas. Anything worth saying is worth saying once, well, after much deliberation. But then, these are linguistic patterns that diffused westward, not eastward. I think West Texas dialect diffused through New Mexico and Colorado, where it ran into conservative refugees and mormons. meanwhile Southern culture overran it from the east. Dying breed, mine, and unmourned.