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Do you consider yourself a "Southerner"

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This a topic I have thought much about over the years!

Being Southern is not only geographic, but also hereditary and cultural. You may have been born, raised, and have lived your whole life in the South, but if your parents are both Yankee carpet baggers, you likely aren't a Southerner. However, it is possible or probable that your children will be Southern.

As for South Florida as a whole, i think the cultural factor makes it largely not a Southern place. But there are still native born South Floridians that I would consider Southern. But not as many as you will find in other places in the Southeast.
 
Notsince1985 said:
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.
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U go to Tulane?
 
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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Im from Miami so not from Florida........so i dont consider myself a southerner
 
Miami is the only place you have to go north to get to the South. To answer the OP, being a lifelong resident of Miami, I do not identify as a Southerner, but I love and appreciate the Southern culture
 
I'm always amazed at how people hate labels, but want to label everything. All of these artificial rifts people like to wear or use, it isn't about diversity and inclusion, but about division. Just be you, forget the labels. Man America is whack as **** and yes, I'm an American. Nobody is better than another, but how one acts can make one better than another. We all bleed the same.
 
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rekofred said:
Only outlier is Moore Haven because that town, everyone is related to everyone else. More missing teeth. Cousins marry cousins etc. Interesting place. But they do have an arby's now. Claim to fame
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When you've got an Arby's, you are officially big time
 
No but considering the amount of fvvcking pick up trucks infesting Miami more and more every day I might as well. Can't wait to roll coal and get paranoid that the guberment is coming to take ma freedom
 
Growing up in Hialeah during early 1970s, I would say there were many aspects of area that were "southern" , at least in the superficial sense. First off, Optimist and High school football was a big deal. I remember part of 103street (49th for you Hialeah folk) being closed every for the Optimist football parade. Local coaches and players were small-town celebrities. Lots of classmates went fishing and/or hunting often and, of course, you had stock car at the local Hialeah track which you could hear from miles away. I even recall a sprinkling or two of Confed flags flying at rallies for Hialeah Mayor Dale Bennett and there was quite a local stir when a black family tried to enroll their kid at Dade Christian HS - a few years later one of their key basketball players kicked off team for attending party where there was dancing (lol). It was quite different back then, to say the least, lol.
 
streetja said:
No but considering the amount of fvvcking pick up trucks infesting Miami more and more every day I might as well. Can't wait to roll coal and get paranoid that the guberment is coming to take ma freedom
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Lots of pickup trucks down there for doing hard work like picking up several dozen water bottles at Costco. I think they call those vehicles "Pavement Princes" in other parts of the south. Lol.
 
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I wouldn’t call anyone in Miami a “Southerner” unless they moved here from somewhere that’s culturally southern. Like parts of Florida, Alabama, Georgia, etc. Miami is nothing like Gainesville from a cultural standpoint.
 
UMFarArcher said:
Like California - you're not Southern - you're not Yankee - I guess you're nothing. Or at least a no-name.

Southerners are more precise in their use of language - more specific - more differentiating.

For example:

"Breast." Breast is singular.

"B reasts." usually - two or more.

"Breast-es-es." - this is like Tootsies, or a Brazilian Carnival type volume.

Precise. Differentiating.

I guess I can give another example:

"Bad." Not good.

"Worse." Really not good.

"Worser." The SHTF.

I use and change language like I change my clothes. Put me in a crowd of Blackwater Cajuns - I am just another one of them.

Put me in a boardroom - I'm one of them as well.

And the whole time - I'm me.
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You know in my line of work, you gotta be able either to sing "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" or "Dixie" with equal enthusiasm... dependin' upon present company.
 
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