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Do you consider yourself a "Southerner"

Growing up in the 305 in the 60’s and 70’s, we got a taste of many different cultures especially from the NE and Mid-Atlantic states. Many moved there permanently and of course the snowbirds that vacationed frequently. I could hear an accent and most of the time could tell where they were from.

There wasn’t that much of an influx of permanent residents from the Caribbean or SA back then but there were many visitors.
 
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Fk no. I was raised the majority of my life in Miami but went to school in Trailerhassee and that was too much southern for me lol. Miami is nothing like those southern states and areas.
 
SFbayCane said:
Growing up in Miami, the old timers always used this expression: "The further north in Florida you go, the further south you get."
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As the years have passed and Florida's population has skyrocketed with move-ins from elsewhere, it may be more the case of "the further inland you get, the more Southern things are."

Will defer to @JeddTheFisch as he's the expert on all things FL

It certainly seems that way in North Florida
 
Born in western NY state. Philly for the 70's. South Fla since 1980.

Nope.
Philly is home to me.
 
Hold My Beer said:
As the years have passed and Florida's population has skyrocketed with move-ins from elsewhere, it may be more the case of "the further inland you get, the more Southern things are."

Will defer to @JeddTheFisch as he's the expert on all things FL

It certainly seems that way in North Florida
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Agreed
 
423Hurricane said:
Growing up in the 305 in the 60’s and 70’s, we got a taste of many different cultures especially from the NE and Mid-Atlantic states. Many moved there permanently and of course the snowbirds that vacationed frequently. I could hear an accent and most of the time could tell where they were from.

There wasn’t that much of an influx of permanent residents from the Caribbean or SA back then but there were many visitors.
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There is far more influence from Latin America than from people from the other US states in South Florida. Also, many people born in Lat Am came here as kids and are raised in the state. Many adults (like my Dad) have Florida as their sole US experience. The overwhelming majority of people who come here from Latin America do not have connections to other US states. That basically only happens when multiple generations have been here, and branch out of Florida.
 
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Originally from Macon, GA. Have spent time from NYC to Miami. I consider myself southern, cause I’ve lived in GA most of my adult life. Due to my “mixed” accent, I only really sound “southern” when I’m up norf, lol. There’s nothing in Miami that looks, sounds, tastes, smells, or feels like the “south”, except for maybe the heat.
 
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Lived my entire life in south Florida outside of four years in Orlando and I definitely don't consider myself a southerner. I mean geographically, yes but culturally, not even close. My parents moved here from north Jersey so we're very much "city folk". Although my dad was raised in a very rural part of Cuba before moving to New Jersey as a kid. I have lived in west Broward which is about as "southern" as you'll get down here but I prefer living east of 95.
 
JeddTheFisch said:
There is far more influence from Latin America than from people from the other US states in South Florida. Also, many people born in Lat Am came here as kids and are raised in the state. Many adults (like my Dad) have Florida as their sole US experience. The overwhelming majority of people who come here from Latin America do not have connections to other US states. That basically only happens when multiple generations have been here, and branch out of Florida.
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I left in ‘83 and there wasn’t much of a Lat Am influence then although there was an influx of Cubans for about a decade mostly in Dade. Lot’s of Canadians as well.
 
JeddTheFisch said:
There is far more influence from Latin America than from the rest of the US in South Florida. Also, many people born in Lat Am came here as kids and are raised in the state. Many adults (like my Dad) have Florida as their sole US experience. The overwhelming majority of people who come here from Latin America do not have connections to other US states. That basically only happens when multiple generations have been here, and branch out of Florida.
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Yeah, it's interesting to trace those things.

From things I've read over the years, the vast majority of both black people and white people who initiated the Miami-Dade population boom beginning in the 1930's and 40's moved there from Middle and South Georgia and North Florida.

That was the case for a friend of mine whose dad moved from the Macon area in the 30's to enter the construction business. He grew up in Miami in the late 50's-early 60's. He was/is pretty much as Southern as you could get
 
423Hurricane said:
I left in ‘83 and there wasn’t much of a Lat Am influence then although there was an influx of Cubans for about a decade mostly in Dade. Lot’s of Canadians as well.
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Cubans had been coming forever, and in earnest since the revolution. But you did leave just as the first non-Cuban influences were taking off, i.e., Colombians and Nicaraguans.

It's impossible to overstate the Colombian influence in South Florida today.
 
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Hold My Beer said:
Yeah, it's interesting to trace those things.

From things I've read over the years, the vast majority of both black people and white people who initiated the Miami-Dade population boom beginning in the 1930's and 40's moved there from Middle and South Georgia and North Florida.

That was the case for a friend of mine whose dad moved from the Macon area in the 30's to enter the construction business. He grew up in Miami in the late 50's-early 60's. He was/is pretty much as Southern as you could get
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All true.
 
JeddTheFisch said:
Cubans had been coming forever, and in earnest since the revolution. But you did leave just as the first non-Cuban influences were taking off, i.e., Colombians and Nicaraguans.

It's impossible to overstate the Colombian influence in South Florida today.
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y Venezuelan y Hatien y Jamaican y Russo tambien, meng.

SoFL is a borderland.
 
Grew up in Melbourne/Cocoa and we had some country good ole boys. I've lived in Jax and Tallahassee for the last 30+ years and that's a lot more "southern" than central FL. In fact, I've been told by southerners and northerners that my "accent" doesn't sound southern at all.
 
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