Which city is MORE southern, Miami or San Antonio? (Florida, live, compared)

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by BillyH

Also add Robert E Lee High School built in the late 1950's, the school mascot the rebel flag didn't disappear I think until the 1980's.

Are you speaking of the San Antonio Robert E. Lee Volunteers? If so, you are very correct. Their mascot and motif was very Old South Southern in that regard.

Of course, I also remember the 1971 4A State Championship Game where my own alma-mater -- although I was just in Junior High at the time -- the Wichita Falls Coyotes, played them.

It was later listed in Dave Campbells "Texas Football" mag as the best high school football game ever played in the state of Texas. SA Lee won 21-20, as I recall. Anyway, I DO remember the "Dixie" fight song. Whatever one feels about the WBTS or the Confederacy or anything associated, there is something about that song when played by marching bands with cymbals crashing and bass horns blasting that makes one want to stomp and holler and cheer (especially if one is Texan/Southern). Even we "Coyote" fans had to clap along with it!

[atlantaATL]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

Have you ever been to San Antonio??? Miami is very southern in parts and San Antonio's most southern parts are only semi-southern. San Antonio has a very southwestern feel to it.

There is nothing Southern about miami It doesnt even look like a Southern city nor have the feel and the culture speaks for itself.

[BPerone201]

I think Miami only got votes from people being sarcastic.

[polo89]

I say both cities have the same amount of non-southerness.

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by BPerone201

I think Miami only got votes from people being sarcastic.

I voted for Miami because it seems to be more southern than San Antonio. People in San Antonio don't even consider themselves southern unlike Miami.

[Spade]

Originally Posted by atlantaATL

There is nothing Southern about miami It doesnt even look like a Southern city nor have the feel and the culture speaks for itself.

So what does a Southern city look like and what is Southern culture?

[polo89]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

I voted for Miami because it seems to be more southern than San Antonio. People in San Antonio don't even consider themselves southern unlike Miami.

People in Miami don't consider themselves southern either.

[nature's message]

I think the media plays an important role on a city's character. Miami is a whole lot more famous for being a lot more unique and foreign than San Antonio for instance.

[polo89]

Originally Posted by Spade

So what does a Southern city look like and what is Southern culture?

Like ATL, like NO, like Charlotte. You REALLY can't compare the southern culture in Miami to those cities. The southern culture in Miami is so small. Overall look at Miami and SEE, REALLY REALLY SEE if you can find a PREDOMINATE, Southern culture. Im not talking about a barbecue restaurant in Liberty City or Overtown, i'm talking PREDOMINANT. As in the culture of the Average Miami resident. People keep saying Miami is southern. But how? How is Miami southern when most of the residents don't consider themselve southern. I agree about San Antonio not being southern, but why can't you say the same for Miami? I don't understand.

[polo89]

Originally Posted by nature's message

I think the media plays an important role on a city's character. Miami is a whole lot more famous for being a lot more unique and foreign than San Antonio for instance.

The problem is, the people who say SA isn't southern say Miami is. I personally think NEITHER are MORE southern then the other. The same things that you use for SA to prove it isn't southern, are the same things you can use for Miami. To say Miami is MORE southern then SA and vice versa dosen't make sense to me.