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Do you consider yourself a "Southerner"

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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Miami isn't Northern or Southern, I consider it an extension of Latin America. It's basically a Carribbean state under the American umbrella, like Puerto Rico.

Miami USED to be Southern. Some of you may still know some old folks who call it "Miam-uh." That's how it was, once.
 
Born and raised in Miami. Moved when I was 35. I live in Connecticut now. Being from Miami, I never considered myself a southerner
 
You can cosplay being a Southerner as you live in South Florida but let's be honest- plenty of us that would claim such would get suspicious looks at best in any Cracker Barrel or Waffle House in the real American South based upon how a lot of us sound and/or upon hearing we're "from Miami".

The "from Miami" part probably will garner even stronger negative reactions just within the parts of Florida that actually are "Southern".

I kinda view Florida almost like a more extreme version of California as I think we have a stronger transplant dynamic at play. That said, you probably won't find a ton of strong similarities between the people that live in San Diego and even Orange County with those that live in the Bay Area.
 
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Born in Miami. 15 years in East ATL. 16 years in Miami. 5 years in Pensacola. 1 year in Nicaragua. Though my accent isn’t acceptable anywhere.

All my immediate family is from the gulf coast from Pensacola to New Orleans so with my upbringing the answer is yes.

Tough question bc I’d say I’ve met some people in Homestead I’d consider southern. It’s cultural and not so much regional.
 
As a Dade native with Southern family roots, I feel like I should weigh in on this one. My opinion is that South Florida is the American Caribbean. My Grandparents were Southerners, and they raised us with a lot of the mores and folkways from the country.

But I'm a U of M Jackson Memorial baby. Born during Cocaine Cowboy/Crack Era, 800+ murders Miami. Growing up here and visiting relatives in true Southern cities, I learned the difference really early in life.

I'm pretty sure if I were born and raised in, let's say Charlotte, I wouldn't understand Jamaican Patois, love cracked conch and speak spanish.

Always remember, Miami is closer in distance to Nassau than Orlando, and closer to Kingston than Atlanta...
 
RattlerCane305 said:
Hometeam I've done 35 through Cross City many a time fam...
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Man, you been knowin' about North Florida ...

I laugh when folks talk about country and backwoods Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina (etc, etc) in comparison to Florida.

I just figure they don't too much know about the rest of this state.

Get away from college towns with their students and faculty and the beach towns with their tourists and snowbirds — and NoFlo is no different than anywhere else in the rural south. ****, I was in Century (Escambia County) a couple months ago. That place hasn't changed in 30 years.

By the way RC305, I'm typing this after finishing a plate of smothered turkey necks. I know you know about those, too 😋 :LOL:
 
RattlerCane305 said:
As a Dade native with Southern family roots, I feel like I should weigh in on this one. My opinion is that South Florida is the American Caribbean. My Grandparents were Southerners, and they raised us with a lot of the mores and folkways from the country.

But I'm a U of M Jackson Memorial baby. Born during Cocaine Cowboy/Crack Era, 800+ murders Miami. Growing up here and visiting relatives in true Southern cities, I learned the difference really early in life.

I'm pretty sure if I were born and raised in, let's say Charlotte, I wouldn't understand Jamaican Patois, love cracked conch and speak spanish.

Always remember, Miami is closer in distance to Nassau than Orlando, and closer to Kingston than Atlanta...
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Spot on.

What's interesting is how many outstanding football players past and present from Dade/Broward/PB have Jamaican, Haitian, Bahamian roots (I'm sure you, gogeta, LC El and others here can co-sign with plenty of examples)

So that cross-pollinization of which you speak works both ways. And we are all better for it
 
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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Did Columbians get a bad rap in 'Scarface'?
 
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Hold My Beer said:
Man, you been knowin' about North Florida ...

I laugh when folks talk about country and backwoods Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina (etc, etc) in comparison to Florida.

I just figure they don't too much know about the rest of this state.

Get away from college towns with their students and faculty and the beach towns with their tourists and snowbirds — and NoFlo is no different than anywhere else in the rural south. ****, I was in Century (Escambia County) a couple months ago. That place hasn't changed in 30 years.

By the way RC305, I'm typing this after finishing a plate of smothered turkey necks. I know you know about those, too 😋 :LOL:
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Exactly…. And it doesn’t take long from leaving one of the larger cities or college towns in Florida to be in another world almost.

Orlando to Bithlo
Gainesville to Waldo
Jacksonville to Callahan

All minutes in travel but yet light years away from each other
 
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