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View Poll Results: Which "big" city in the Southeast is the friendliest?
Atlanta, GA 25 32.89%
Orlando, FL 2 2.63%
Raleigh-Durham, NC 13 17.11%
Mobile, AL 14 18.42%
Miami, FL 6 7.89%
Charlotte, NC 16 21.05%
Voters: 76. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 11-06-2009, 06:44 PM
 
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If you could be more specific, I could tell you if that particular area of Orlando is southern or not.I and my wife are FL natives, which are considered southern I believe by most people, but Orlando isnt.
Orlando looks pretty southern to me...


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Old 11-06-2009, 07:53 PM
 
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Orlando looks pretty southern to me...


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That's all tourism just to show people that there once was an OLD Florida. None of the majority of the city talks, eats, acts, or remembers, a FLA like that.
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Old 11-06-2009, 07:56 PM
 
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That's all tourism just to show people that there once was an OLD Florida. None of the majority of the city talks, eats, acts, or remembers, a FLA like that.
I'll give you the girls in hoop skirts, but NASCAR, Waffle House, Old Dixie Fried Chicken, and Spanish Moss are for tourism?
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Old 11-06-2009, 08:07 PM
 
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I'll give you the girls in hoop skirts, but NASCAR, Waffle House, Old Dixie Fried Chicken, and Spanish Moss are for tourism?
The NASCAR cafe is at a theme park. I don't think that qualifies.

Spanish Moss has nothing to do with the culture of the area.

I've seen Waffle House all over Florida, even in extrememly non-Southern areas like Naples and Charlotte county.

Old Dixie Fried Chicken is a specialty restaurant. It's the only thing you've shown so far that would make me think Orlando is southern. But one restaurant hardly qualifies the entire city.

There are parts of Orlando that might still have traces of Southern heritage. But I don't think of the city being Southern. Polk county, Lake county...certainly Sumter county I think of as still somehwat Southern. But not Orange, Seminole, Osceola or Brevard. Maybe Volusia.
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Old 11-06-2009, 08:14 PM
 
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The NASCAR cafe is at a theme park. I don't think that qualifies.

Spanish Moss has nothing to do with the culture of the area.

I've seen Waffle House all over Florida, even in extrememly non-Southern areas like Naples and Charlotte county.

Old Dixie Fried Chicken is a specialty restaurant. It's the only thing you've shown so far that would make me think Orlando is southern. But one restaurant hardly qualifies the entire city.

There are parts of Orlando that might still have traces of Southern heritage. But I don't think of the city being Southern. Polk county, Lake county...certainly Sumter county I think of as still somehwat Southern. But not Orange, Seminole, Osceola or Brevard. Maybe Volusia.
It's a NASCAR Cafe, but indicative of the popularity of NASCAR in Orlando and Florida in general

Waffle House and Spanish Moss are definitely associated with the South. I don't care how many "non-southern" southern cities they are in, these things are quintessentially southern.

My post wasn't meant to start a debate with someone who takes these things too seriously. It was supposed to be slightly amusing...so lighten up.

I do think, IMO and in my experience, that Orlando is VERY southern. I live in a supposedly southern city, and it isn't nearly as traditionally southern as Orlando. Of course, the photos I posted don't prove anything. But my many visits to Orlando DO.
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Old 11-06-2009, 08:30 PM
 
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I'll give you the girls in hoop skirts, but NASCAR, Waffle House, Old Dixie Fried Chicken, and Spanish Moss are for tourism?
Not the waffle house, but every thing else YES. The Spanish Moss I believe is a park. Even if it wasn't it still doesn't grow EVERYWHERE in Orlando. You can also find Louisiana Cajun food in Long Beach CA. It's only one restaurant. Southern cuisine can be found in MANY places. But I'll give you the waffle house.
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Old 11-06-2009, 08:36 PM
 
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Spanish moss was brought to the south from over seas when the Spanards came to America. SHEESH have anyone of you have had a history class?!
Care to correct me? Look it up instead of bickering about it on an online forum.

Spanish moss=south as Cacti=southwest.
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Old 11-06-2009, 08:57 PM
 
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Spanish moss was brought to the south from over seas when the Spanards came to America. SHEESH have anyone of you have had a history class?!
Care to correct me? Look it up instead of bickering about it on an online forum.

Spanish moss=south as Cacti=southwest.
Well, obviously...Spanish Moss...I doubt anyone needs a history lesson to figure that one out. I didn't think it was native to Florida.

Whevever it CAME FROM, it thrives in the warmer climate areas of the southern U.S. Maybe everyone doesn't associate it with the South, but many people do.

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Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) is a flowering plant that grows upon larger trees, commonly the southern live oak or bald cypress in the Southeastern United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_moss
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Old 11-06-2009, 09:00 PM
 
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Not the waffle house, but every thing else YES. The Spanish Moss I believe is a park. Even if it wasn't it still doesn't grow EVERYWHERE in Orlando. You can also find Louisiana Cajun food in Long Beach CA. It's only one restaurant. Southern cuisine can be found in MANY places. But I'll give you the waffle house.
Like I said, I just posted the photos in fun. Of course they don't "prove" anything, but I just thought it was neat to see some traditional southern photos from a city that some people are touting as "no longer part of the South".
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Old 11-06-2009, 09:07 PM
 
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Like I said, I just posted the photos in fun. Of course they don't "prove" anything, but I just thought it was neat to see some traditional southern photos from a city that some people are touting as "no longer part of the South".
I still think it's part of the South, but it's just not as culturally Southern as it once was. But it's still part of the South.
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