Do residents of Miami consider Miami a Southern city? (Fort Lauderdale: living in, vs)

[jdevelop2]

Please do not vote unless you currently live or have lived in Miami. Thanks!

[PBCboy]

As in like a typical southeastern city? Definitely not.

[jdevelop2]

There is a raging debate in a CD city vs city thread debating this. Starts at post #182

http://www.city-data.com/forum/city-...-south-19.html

[Lilybeans]

I thought it was known as the capital of South America.

[♥♥PRINC3Ss♥♥]

No, and I don't think anybody does.

[dadeguy]

all of southeast florida is more like the northeastern united states. miamah was a city graced with southern charm when I was growing up in the early 1960s but by the mid sixties the vibe began to grow and with the mass exodus of the florida crackers who basically hated the cuban immigrants hastened the end of miami being a southern city.

in my opinion the south ends somewhere just north of orlando.

I love miami just as it is because miami is truely an atypical city for north america and only one of two, the other being n'awrlins.

[Mrs. P]

I didn't vote because I've never lived in Miami, however from living in two Southern states during my lifetime, NC and SC, no Miami is not considered Southern.

It's location may be in the Southern part of the US, but it's not a Southern culture.

[dadeguy]

Originally Posted by Mrs. P

I didn't vote because I've never lived in Miami, however from living in two Southern states during my lifetime, NC and SC, no Miami is not considered Southern.

It's location may be in the Southern part of the US, but it's not a Southern culture.

and the citizens of miami say amen.....

[Spade]

I lived in Miami, all of my friends and family live in Miami and Fort Lauderdale and all of them consider themselves Southerners. Yes, I do think Miami is Southern. It's just has a different vibe. Just like Chicago has a different vibe from every other city in the Midwest or New York has a different vibe from every other city in the Northeast.

Especially amongst the blacks in Miami. They do the same things they do in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. They ride the big box chevy's, has a very large baptist churches in and around Dade County, listen to nothing BUT Southern music, eat the same food (every city in the South does have their differences to this I admit but it's basically the same).

[quickgrits]

Originally Posted by Spade

I lived in Miami, all of my friends and family live in Miami and Fort Lauderdale and all of them consider themselves Southerners. Yes, I do think Miami is Southern. It's just has a different vibe. Just like Chicago has a different vibe from every other city in the Midwest or New York has a different vibe from every other city in the Northeast.

Especially amongst the blacks in Miami. They do the same things they do in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. They ride the big box chevy's, has a very large baptist churches in and around Dade County, listen to nothing BUT Southern music, eat the same food (every city in the South does have their differences to this I admit but it's basically the same).

What exactly is southern music? I don't think anyone in my family or any of my black friends listen to that The blacks in miami are not much different from any other races in miami and I don't see how the cars they drive are any different. I do however agree that black people in Dade tend to be more religious. I know you didn't intend on it but that post came off as just a little ignorant to me.