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Old 05-02-2012, 06:44 PM
 
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Pardon ignorance but I've been trying to follow this thread (I admit I haven't read 100% of it from the beginning) but what would define Tampa as being 'Southern Culture' or 'non-Southern Culture'? And southern compared to what and why would it matter? Just asking....
Also I see there's quite the argument over sweet tea, is that the same thing as iced tea? We have iced tea up here that i think only resembles real tea in colour. When I've been in FL and ordered iced tea it is a lot different than what I'm used to. It is WAY better!
The are asking if it is like the culture in and around Calgary
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Old 05-04-2012, 01:06 PM
 
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We don't have hillbillies down here....thats the carolinas.....get it right, I swear these people from the "Upper South" who move down here.
Sorry to inform you but Sumter, SC has hillbillies....
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Old 05-09-2012, 08:35 PM
 
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If tampa is "southern" what is Columbia, SC redneck heaven?

Tampa is as southern as Atlanta....
Columbia, SC is not redneck heaven...there would be people there that take offense to that description, its a nice Southern City...once burned to the ground by Sherman. Columbia doesn't have as many transplants to deal with as Tampa so i'd say yeah its more Southern. But Florida has rednecks just like the Carolinas have rednecks and we have Country folks, crackers, farmers, white trash, and just regular Southerners who live in small towns and cities...we don't have hillbillies though...that is something that comes from the foothills of Appalachia...nothin against them but we don't have hillbillies in Florida unless maybe they were born up that way and moved down here.
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Old 05-09-2012, 09:12 PM
 
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Columbia, SC is not redneck heaven...there would be people there that take offense to that description, its a nice Southern City...once burned to the ground by Sherman. Columbia doesn't have as many transplants to deal with as Tampa so i'd say yeah its more Southern. But Florida has rednecks just like the Carolinas have rednecks and we have Country folks, crackers, farmers, white trash, and just regular Southerners who live in small towns and cities...we don't have hillbillies though...that is something that comes from the foothills of Appalachia...nothin against them but we don't have hillbillies in Florida unless maybe they were born up that way and moved down here.
Never said florida had hillbillies...
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Old 07-18-2012, 02:31 AM
 
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WordAtlas describes bellow,

Tampa

"Located in west-central Florida and founded in 1824, the clean and modern city of Tampa offers activities and attractions for every interest and age.

Known for its cultural diversity, this Southern City boasts a unique blend of Cuban, African American, Italian and Spanish neighborhoods.

Ybor City, known as Tampa's Latin Quarter, features its own unique blend of aromas, sights and sounds, including the smooth taste of Spanish Sangria, the smell of Cuban coffee and cigars and the Latin sounds of Rumba and Salsa late into the evening.
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Old 07-19-2012, 09:36 AM
 
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I know this is old but thanks for posting these wonderful historical pictures of Tampa!

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Tampa's Confederate Monument and City Hall


Uncle Remus Float in Tampa's Gasparilla Carnival Parade




Moonshine Still Raided in Tampa Florida


Southern Debs in Tampa's Gasparilla Parade


Chain-gang working roadside in Tampa Florida


Branch's Opera House in Tampa


Desoto Oak in Tampa


Tampa's Children's HOme


Hyde Park in Tampa


Palmetto Hotel in Tampa


Tampa's Crafts Hotel


Tampa View
http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive01/541.jpg

House on Bayshore Blvd
http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/reference/rc20794.jpg

Tampa Polk Street with Antebellum Courthouse


Negro School House in Tampa


Egmont Key Light Commissioned by Robert E. Lee


State Isolation Hospital Tampa


Tampan Willie Gillard with a Possum he is about to clean and cook
http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/folklife/fs821902.jpg

Tampa Southern Belle Mattie Ward Henderson Harris
http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/general/n043590.jpg

Cotton Bale Sale in Tampa


University of Florida Student Section with Confederate Flag at Football Game...this was when my father when my father was in school there.



FLA Confederate Soldier Charles L. Sewell, private from Company G, 1st Florida Infantry.


http://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/0...UF00030890.jpg
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Old 07-19-2012, 06:37 PM
 
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no no no... nothing southern about it- and not multicultural metropolitan either. kinda of its own culture,, they do not want to change it either,,, and def not Latin flavor at all,,,, Jax is Southern! sweet tea n all...
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Old 07-27-2012, 10:37 PM
 
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I know this is old but thanks for posting these wonderful historical pictures of Tampa!
Your welcome...I don't know why they won't come up, maybe some Northerner is tryin to keep the truth about our Southern Heritage a secret.
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Old 07-27-2012, 10:40 PM
 
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The Old Lewis Plantation was a cotton plantation turned tourist trap.. just "North of Tampa" (now basically a suburb of Tampa) as the brochure reads and probably picked many a yankee's pocket on their way down to South Florida.
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Old 07-27-2012, 10:45 PM
 
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Gotta love transplants, huh ?

I grew up in Plant City and yes, The Bay Area is Southern !
I was in Plant City today and love this place!

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