[007.5]

Originally Posted by dmccauley

I have read it over and over again on the threads and still haven't really figured out why. There are so many states where people from up north move to and aren't criticized nearly as much as they are in Florida. Do Floridians get the same treatment when they move to another state?

I moved to the Florida Panhandle from the north 1.5 years ago and i havent found any biggotry regarding Northerners toward myself or others. If it occurs, its probably because Northerners tend to be a little more assertive, less layed-back, and dont find any happiness in eating grits ...lol....

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by verobeach

If it weren't for the Yankee presence in FL, who'd be spending the bucks and keeping the economy afloat? The restaurants would disappear, shops and businesses would close, and we'd just be Alabama South.

Many native Floridians would prefer it to be like "Alabama South", just like it once was.

[Lakeland Yankee]

Originally Posted by NativeFloridan

We need to start a campaign in Florida that promotes the state to other Southern people from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and South Carolina. Also, we could give citizens of these states incentives to relocate their families to Florida and maybe pretty soon they will outnumber the yankees that have moved here. Next thing you know, the native Floridans will have someone to help them guard the Southern culture and heritage of the state against the Northerners who constantly try to destroy it.

The war ended in 1865, move on. Americans have the right to move anywhere in the nation that they please. This whole North-South thing is ridiculous considering we are in 2010. We Americans have much more important issues than that right now.

[muggums]

"Until the mid-twentieth century, Florida was the least populous Southern state. In 1900 its population was only 528,542, of whom nearly 44 percent were African American.[16] The boll weevil devastated cotton crops, and early 20th century lynchings and racial violence caused a record number of African Americans to leave the state in the Great Migration to northern and midwestern industrial cities. Forty thousand blacks, roughly one-fifth of their 1900 population, left for better opportunities.[17] National economic prosperity in the 1920s stimulated tourism to Florida. Combined with its sudden elevation in profile was the Florida land boom of the 1920s, which brought a brief period of intense land development. Devastating hurricanes in 1926 and 1928, followed by the stock market crash and Great Depression, brought that period to a halt.
Florida's economy did not fully recover until the buildup for World War II. The climate, tempered by the growing availability of air conditioning, and low cost of living made the state a haven. Migration from the Rust Belt and the Northeast sharply increased the population after the war. In recent decades, more migrants have come for the jobs in a developing economy. Today, with an estimated population of more than 18 million, Florida is the most populous state in the Southeastern United States, the second most populous state in the South behind Texas, and the fourth most populous in the United States. The Census Bureau estimated that "Florida, now the fourth most populous state, will edge past New York into third place in total population by 2011".[18]
See also: Seminole Wars and Florida in the American Civil War

[muggums]

So explain to me when it was "like "Alabama South", just like it once was".

[exsecrare]

I'm an ******* and my family goes back in Florida around 150 years. Doesn't matter where you're from some people are just jerks... like myself... YAY!

[beachmouse]

Originally Posted by muggums

So explain to me when it was "like "Alabama South", just like it once was".

Makes me think of that stretch of US 19 between I-10 and about Crystal River- horribly impoverished but 'culturally pure'.

While unchecked and unregulated development is never a good thing, the larger world is always moving onward, and if a city doesn't recognize that and give its best and brightest good reasons to stay, it's going to keep losing the young and vibrant heart of the community to the siren call of the bigger cities.

[ChrisA70]

Some of them thar southerners are stuck on that thar rebel flag stuff er sumthin.....

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by ChrisA70

Some of them thar southerners are stuck on that thar rebel flag stuff er sumthin.....

And people like you make sure to keep it going.

[NativeFloridan]

Originally Posted by southernnaturelover

And people like you make sure to keep it going.

Well said.