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View Poll Results: Which city is less Southern?
Dallas 15 11.28%
Miami 118 88.72%
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Old 02-21-2013, 03:00 PM
 
Location: Hollywood, CA
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The only thing southern about Dallas and Miami are the Black populations who are still strongly Deep South in culture.

Dallas to me felt like a combination of a Great Plains/Southwestern city with a significant Mexican population, while Miami is more of a mix of Northeastern Snowbirds combined with Hispanic Caribbean culture. Both of these cities doesn't have the feel of a traditional Southern city IMO.

Dallas was historically more Southern than Miami. But in the last 30 years, this has changed with the transplants moving into Dallas and changing the local accent to a more General American variety with Y'all.

So which city is less Southern?
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Old 02-21-2013, 05:58 PM
 
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Miami is still pretty Southern in some parts. As is Dallas.
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Old 02-21-2013, 06:09 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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SouthEast and SouthWest southern are actually pretty different.
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Old 02-21-2013, 07:02 PM
 
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The only thing southern about Dallas and Miami are the Black populations who are still strongly Deep South in culture.
Neither Dallas or Miami have historically been considered "Deep South," which is culturally associated with the Plantation/coastal plain South. Even so, I think the White population in Dallas is pretty Southern, especially since Dallas is a stronghold of evangelical Christianity in a way that Miami really isn't.
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Old 02-21-2013, 07:06 PM
 
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SouthEast and SouthWest southern are actually pretty different.
Miami's Southeast Southern is pretty diffirent from regular Southeast Southern.
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Old 02-21-2013, 07:07 PM
 
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Neither Dallas or Miami have historically been considered "Deep South," which is culturally associated with the Plantation/coastal plain South. Even so, I think the White population in Dallas is pretty Southern, especially since Dallas is a stronghold of evangelical Christianity in a way that Miami really isn't.
Correct, neither city was ever considered the "Deep South".
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Old 02-21-2013, 08:22 PM
 
Location: Valdez, Alaska
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I don't consider either of them to be strongly Southern in terms of culture, but between them I'd say Miami is less Southern. I think Tampa may be about equivalent to Dallas in terms of "Southern-ness," but it's a different style.
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Old 02-21-2013, 10:31 PM
 
Location: OKIE-Ville
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Not even close. With all the ethnic diversity in Miami, it is much less Southern than Dallas on the whole.
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Old 02-21-2013, 10:52 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Neither of them are southern in general, but if anything, I would say Miami is less southern. I've been to both cities.
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Old 02-22-2013, 04:21 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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When people think of southern, they think of SouthEast. Texas is not the SouthEast, and very culturally different than a place like GA, Florida, Alabama, or Missippii. But to be honest with you, there is no real unified southern culture. If anything the more Southwest you go, the more it resembles the West Coast. Texas and the Southeast are different enough where you can't make a direct comparison between the two.
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