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This is a good point. No accent: Not Yooper, not twangy, not Chicago-y either. Solidly that Southern Michigan/northern Indiana or Ohio range.
I mostly agree with this and the post you quoted, but my experience is a little different with a couple of the areas mentioned.
My dad's whole side of the family is from Cincinnati, and none of them have southern-like accents. Maybe they are unique within the area in that regard, but they all just sound like generic accent-less midwesterners.
I also know a lot of people from southwestern Michigan (Kalamazoo area) and almost ALL of them have an accent that's hard to describe but somewhat like a Wisconsin accent. The few people I know from southern-central and southeast MI don't have accents though.
I think, not just based on the accent but the totality of the circumstances, that it's overwhelmingly likely BG is from rural central or northern Indiana. If he's not though, I feel like Illinois and Ohio are decent possibilities, and Missouri, Iowa, and Michigan are not out of the question.