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The South Texas culture is interesting. The hispanics there, while they will vote democrat are actually pretty conservative socially and their views on issues like gay rights, abortion would be more aligned to what you think a white conservative southerner's views are. And yep, many wear western gear.
All places in SoFla are more Southern in culture than Corpus.
Vast majority of the city's population is of Hispanic ethnicity. So, no, there aren't "just as many White Southerners with Texas drawls."
The Mexican culture in South Texas is also far older than South Florida's Latin American culture.
According to Wikipedia, 54% of Corpus is Hispanic. How is this a "vast majority"? Do you know what that word means?
As someone who has been to Corpus twice and been to even smaller towns in SoFla along Okeechobee and the Everglades, I can say easily that Corpus feels much more "traditionally Southern" than those towns. And it's much larger than those towns.
So my question, what's your experience with Corpus and SoFla? Have you been to Corpus? Have you been to SoFla? What towns in SoFla?
The further south of San Antonio one gets, the lower the percentage gets of people who speak English only. I think it would be a difficult place to live for anybody who does not speak Spanish.
Don't forget, Texas was once a Mexican State. Many of the people South of San Antonio have ancestors from that region dating back several hundreds of years. Long before the Europeans arrived on this continent.
Thru out History, there have been several flags of flown over South Texas and there are people there whose families have been on the same land thru all the regime changes. People are the same. Only the name is different.
South of San Antonio doesnt feel like any of the Southern state's that were once part of the Confederacy. Actually, Brownsville and Laredo feels more like Monterrey, Mexico than Charleston, Savannah, Richmond, Montgomery and even East Texas cities, Tyler, Beaumont and Texarkana, or any other traditional Southern city.
I don't think South Florida feels near as foreign as South Texas
The further south of San Antonio one gets, the lower the percentage gets of people who speak English only. I think it would be a difficult place to live for anybody who does not speak Spanish.
Don't forget, Texas was once a Mexican State. Many of the people South of San Antonio have ancestors from that region dating back several hundreds of years. Long before the Europeans arrived on this continent.
Thru out History, there have been several flags of flown over South Texas and there are people there whose families have been on the same land thru all the regime changes. People are the same. Only the name is different.
South of San Antonio doesnt feel like any of the Southern state's that were once part of the Confederacy. Actually, Brownsville and Laredo feels more like Monterrey, Mexico than Charleston, Savannah, Richmond, Montgomery and even East Texas cities, Tyler, Beaumont and Texarkana, or any other traditional Southern city.
I don't think South Florida feels near as foreign as South Texas
That's not true. Outside the RGV, most people speak English and it doesn't feel foreign at all. Also, outside of the RGV the "latinos" are very well assimilated and it's not uncommon for them to speak in Southern drawls.
Take your example of Brownsville- just cross on over onto SPI and you're back into Americana again. Just a couple miles north, the towns feel distinctly American. It's really only the RGV.
Miami-Dade has the highest percentage of people born overseas than anywhere else in the USA. Most of those people come from Latin America. You have cities like Hialeah, 250,000 people, 95% Hispanic. Compare to Brownsville, Texas which has 180,000 people and is 91% Hispanic.
But even using the older figures you mention....remember that the Hispanic figure carries over all races: Much of the "White" percentage in that city includes Hispanics. So that 54% turns out to be a much larger percentage than what the other races make up, depending on what is checked in at Census.
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Originally Posted by ScubaSteve87
As someone who has been to Corpus twice and been to even smaller towns in SoFla along Okeechobee and the Everglades, I can say easily that Corpus feels much more "traditionally Southern" than those towns. And it's much larger than those towns.
So my question, what's your experience with Corpus and SoFla? Have you been to Corpus? Have you been to SoFla? What towns in SoFla?
I've traveled to Corpus numerous times, same with South Florida (from Naples to Ft. Lauderdale to Everglades City):
South Florida is FAR more Southern. There's greater proliferation of the traditional Southern culture through the city (not only from the Blacks, but also some of the Whites), the Latin culture there isn't as established as the Mexican culture in South Texas, and its climate/landscape is more like the rest of the South compared to what is seen in Corpus.
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