[Huckleberry3911948]

Not very
Salt water crocodiles
Giant pythons
Spanish
?????

[Sgoldie]

I'm in central Florida north of Rt4. It seems to me we lean culturally a bit toward Texas. You often hear ma'am and sir and miss (your first name) no matter how old you are or whether you're single or married. There are loads of big ranches, horse and steer, and it's not unusual to see working cowboys out and around. This is also a huge motorcycle area with independent types and long hair in men you don't see up north anymore. This is the top half of Florida and in the middle of it.

Now if you check out the coasts you will find beachy types with the money train growing the further south you get and ending in fashionable Miami where the culture is definately Latin American.

[CountryFisher]

Originally Posted by isles20

Southern like basic culture, fried foods, think of Alabama.

We do eat lots of fried chicken in my town.

This video made by a native Floridian cracker pretty much sums it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLykJtigKdA

[EscAlaMike]

It depends on where in Florida you go. White Springs? Southern. Boca Raton? Not.

[runswithscissors]

Originally Posted by Sweetbottoms

It's roughly below Georgia but north of Cuba if my calculations are somewhat accurate... But I attended Florida schools so don't hold me to it... Check yer there map youngin..p.s. we have a portrait of Robert E Lee hanging in the county commissions chamber. His spirit presides over our here governmental figures. 'Merica...

It's unlikely anyone will bother to factcheck WHY Robert E Lee's portrait is hung there.

History of the Civil War

[runswithscissors]

Originally Posted by isles20

Southern like basic culture, fried foods, think of Alabama.

Not nearly Southern enough for me. Lookin for The Country Dream? Wilson NC's got the moves. "Shake your pork chop, work your ham hock..." WERQ!

(turn your volume down)


Poak Chops - YouTube

Best video ever.

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by MiamiRob

Some history here! Florida was only a "Confederate" state from 1845 when Spain turned it over to the US until 1865 when the Civil War ended so it was ""Confederate" for 20 years only.

The United States gained Florida from Spain in 1821 not 1845. The so called Confederacy and the War of the Rebellion lasted from 1861 to 1865. So Florida was in a state of rebellion for 4 years not 20. Florida was a strategic backwater so other than controlling it's ports the Federals had little interest in the state. The main areas of operations in the war were the Mississippi, Cumberland and Tennessee valleys and then on a line from Chattanooga to Atlanta, thence to Savannah and then then north through the Carolinas. There was also a sideshow in northern Virginia, with forays into Maryland and Pennsylvania, that gets more attention than it was due because the Yankee chattering class was (is) in the east.

The state that gave us Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackfoot, Molly Hatchet, the Allmans, the Outlaws and the Black Crowes is pretty southern.

[craigtnelson]

North FL = Southern

Central and South FL = Midwestern/Northern

Make sense?

[Pincho-toot]

Originally Posted by OptimusPrime69

lol, u have got to be kidding.

FL has southern elements, but it's not "southern" like mississippi or Alabama or even Georgia. Thank goodness.

I'd rather be in Georgia than Florida, hell even rather be in Alabama. Those states don't have as many snotty plastic yuppies.

[SeaLark7]

The saying goes, the farther north you go in Florida, the more Southern it is. Here in Vero Beach I rarely hear a true Southern accent, but I do think the people are friendlier than they are in the North. One exception to the "southern Florida is more Northern" rule seems to be when you go inland. I have met someone who lives in the Lake Okeechobee area and he was a good ol Southern boy, accent and all.