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Do you consider yourself a "Southerner"

Cutler Ridge and the communities south through the Redlands and into the keys have a lot of families with southern roots. People out by the glades are also pretty swampy. Most of my high school buddies and I had families with rural southern roots and identify ourselves as southern but from Miami.
 
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Hold My Beer said:
I know The U has fans everywhere, but Florida is still home base at the end of the day.

Obviously being "Southern" means different things to different people, but just wanted to know what Canes Fam thinks

Me -- born and raised (all over) North Florida? Yes. 100 percent.

(This topic came up for discussion on a sports talk show up here in Atlanta wrt to best fits for SEC expansion)
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That's a real DANGEROUS QUESTION TO ASK even more tricky to qualify... I believe in northern Florida the way to phrase this question would be " how many klan rallies have you attended"
Before the north Floridians declare a jihad on me, I'll just say now I kid I kid.
 
Born in Baltimore, moved to Miami when I was 1. Lived in Miami until I went to college. Lived in New Orleans for 4 years. Tallahassee for 5 years. Chicago for 4 years. Chattanooga for 13.

I have no idea what I am.
 
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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You've obviously never been to Dixie County, Florida
 
Obviously a cultural question.

I'm a 3rd generation South Floridian, so NOT a Southerner. I will say if you were born down here before say 1950, you'd probably categorize yourself as a Southerner. Hearing my Dad's stories from when he was a kid and young adult, I'd always say it sounded like Mayberry at times, specifically here in Broward with Miami being "Mount Pilot". Both the good (more innocent time) and horrible (segregation, separate water fountains/bathrooms, etc.)

However, that culture has been superseded more and more every year since then. The post WWII influx of Northerners, specifically New Yorkers and of course the exodus out of Cuba. I must say, I'm glad to be here now. You can do everything from go to a rodeo in Davie, go to any major pro sport you like or major college sport, enjoy cuisine from just about anywhere in the world, among a wide range of other activities and cultures.
 
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From Miami but went to school in Athens GA and then returned after school and lived in Athens for another 5 years, then lived in Atlanta and parts of North Carolina over the following 15 years or so.. and No i do not consider myself a southerner because i was born and raised in Miami.
 
great now we never getting into the SEC. i kid but we really need to get into the SEC just because UF will lose their minds.
 
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Hold My Beer said:
I know The U has fans everywhere, but Florida is still home base at the end of the day.

Obviously being "Southern" means different things to different people, but just wanted to know what Canes Fam thinks

Me -- born and raised (all over) North Florida? Yes. 100 percent.

(This topic came up for discussion on a sports talk show up here in Atlanta wrt to best fits for SEC expansion)
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Currently live in NW Florida - aka - L.A.

Lower Alabama.

"Yes ma'am, no'mam, yes sir, no sir." First rifle - a .22 - at age 8. Friday's after school - starting age 12, grabbed backpack, rifle across the handlebars, sleeping bag and pup tent on front fender of my bike - and the rule was - I had to be back in time for church.

Love ham hocks and Great Northern Beans with cornbread, was driving a pickup at age 12 - worked a full shift and drove myself to work at age 14.

If it has feathers, scales, hide, shells - I can prep it. Deer hunting with a rifle - too easy - so I hunt with a .41 or .44 mag Smith Model 57 or 29. I used to keep a couple widows in venison since they missed it so much from their husbands. Volunteered for Army - did my part - took a good number of scalps. Got put on point, man hunting - never came off - lost no one killed. Skills I learned as a boy.

Enjoy hog hunting - and we catch them with our hands, tie them and carry them out across our saddle.

I've been offered jobs with US Marshall Service, CIA (dodged a bullet there), several large banks in the Dade/Broward area when younger, and have been called to address the Board of Directors visiting from New York from one of the largest banking holding companies in the US. Keynote speaker at numerous Special Operations functions. SIgma personality per a doctor - whatever that is.

Lived and spent many weeks at a time in remote areas of Tundra, Alpine elevations, savannahs, southern swamps, arctic, ice cap, high desert, rain forests and jungles. Snake bit twice, brown recluse once, had a king cobra rise from the ground in front of me - and we were the same height.

Oh yes . . . A so-called Bigfoot saw me up close - real close - but no one believes him.

Just your average Southerner.
 
My family moved from NY to Miami Beach in the 1940’s where I was born and raised. I’m not remotely a Southerner. I’ve lived in the Mid-Atlantic part of the south for much of my life prior to now and no one considered me a southerner.
 
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UMFarArcher said:
Currently live in NW Florida - aka - L.A.

Lower Alabama.

"Yes ma'am, no'mam, yes sir, no sir." First rifle - a .22 - at age 8. Friday's after school - starting age 12, grabbed backpack, rifle across the handlebars, sleeping bag and pup tent on front fender of my bike - and the rule was - I had to be back in time for church.

Love ham hocks and Great Northern Beans with cornbread, was driving a pickup at age 12 - worked a full shift and drove myself to work at age 14.

If it has feathers, scales, hide, shells - I can prep it. Deer hunting with a rifle - too easy - so I hunt with a .41 or .44 mag Smith Model 57 or 29. I used to keep a couple widows in venison since they missed it so much from their husbands. Volunteered for Army - did my part - took a good number of scalps. Got put on point, man hunting - never came off - lost no one killed. Skills I learned as a boy.

Enjoy hog hunting - and we catch them with our hands, tie them and carry them out across our saddle.

I've been offered jobs with US Marshall Service, CIA (dodged a bullet there), several large banks in the Dade/Broward area when younger, and have been called to address the Board of Directors visiting from New York from one of the largest banking holding companies in the US. Keynote speaker at numerous Special Operations functions. SIgma personality per a doctor - whatever that is.

Lived and spent many weeks at a time in remote areas of Tundra, Alpine elevations, savannahs, southern swamps, arctic, ice cap, high desert, rain forests and jungles. Snake bit twice, brown recluse once, had a king cobra rise from the ground in front of me - and we were the same height.

Oh yes . . . A so-called Bigfoot saw me up close - real close - but no one believes him.

Just your average Southerner.
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Well… we have the brown en recluse bite in common.
 
UMFarArcher said:
Currently live in NW Florida - aka - L.A.

Lower Alabama.

"Yes ma'am, no'mam, yes sir, no sir." First rifle - a .22 - at age 8. Friday's after school - starting age 12, grabbed backpack, rifle across the handlebars, sleeping bag and pup tent on front fender of my bike - and the rule was - I had to be back in time for church.

Love ham hocks and Great Northern Beans with cornbread, was driving a pickup at age 12 - worked a full shift and drove myself to work at age 14.

If it has feathers, scales, hide, shells - I can prep it. Deer hunting with a rifle - too easy - so I hunt with a .41 or .44 mag Smith Model 57 or 29. I used to keep a couple widows in venison since they missed it so much from their husbands. Volunteered for Army - did my part - took a good number of scalps. Got put on point, man hunting - never came off - lost no one killed. Skills I learned as a boy.

Enjoy hog hunting - and we catch them with our hands, tie them and carry them out across our saddle.

I've been offered jobs with US Marshall Service, CIA (dodged a bullet there), several large banks in the Dade/Broward area when younger, and have been called to address the Board of Directors visiting from New York from one of the largest banking holding companies in the US. Keynote speaker at numerous Special Operations functions. SIgma personality per a doctor - whatever that is.

Lived and spent many weeks at a time in remote areas of Tundra, Alpine elevations, savannahs, southern swamps, arctic, ice cap, high desert, rain forests and jungles. Snake bit twice, brown recluse once, had a king cobra rise from the ground in front of me - and we were the same height.

Oh yes . . . A so-called Bigfoot saw me up close - real close - but no one believes him.

Just your average Southerner.
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