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Go outside the City Limits of Gainesville, drive around Alachua County for a couple of hours and then come back and tell me it's not Southern.
The locals would laugh you right off of their front porches to even suggest otherwise....
And????????? My point was that things change. Sorry, if that means it isn't as southern any more. It is neither good nor bad. Just change. There is nothing you can do about it. A whole lot of things and places have changed in 40 years.
Development happens and brings about changes.
Edit: However, there is an undercurrent here. You are preaching to wrong person. Tell it to all those other transplants (retirees/young familes) from North taking away your southern culture and trying to push their northern culture in the south. I am not one of them. Take it up with THEM. I will go NORTH for MY culture, thank you very much. There is and never will be a substiute for the real thing, whether than is "pizza, bagels", or whatever. I just want to leave. You want to argue with that? I would think that would make a real southerner very happy.
And????????? My point was that things change. Sorry, if that means it isn't as southern any more. It is neither good nor bad. Just change. There is nothing you can do about it. A whole lot of things and places have changed in 40 years.
Development happens and brings about changes.
There is no need for you to be sorry about anything, as it's still as Southern as it ever was OUTSIDE the City Limits. Development happens. Malls and apartments get built. That does NOT change the makeup of an area, just the built environment.
I have spent approximately half of my life in Florida, and not just limited to a small County in a remote corner of the State. I know the place better than you ever will.
I dont really see where my ol' bud B&C fetched a musket, OH! He was just pointing out a fact as to the impact northern transplants have made into the general culture of certain parts of Florida. And it has. And quite often in a very detrimental way.
As an aside, "yankee" is just part of the Southern vernacular and may or may not intend anything negative (depends on the yankee in question! .)
All in all, it is in the same way that when Europeans call all Americans "yanks". Or that Midwesterners refer to northeasterners as "yankees." Or northeasterners refer to New Englanders! Or New Englanders label folks from Connecticut or Vermont! LOL
And????????? My point was that things change. Sorry, if that means it isn't as southern any more. It is neither good nor bad. Just change. There is nothing you can do about it. A whole lot of things and places have changed in 40 years.
Development happens and brings about changes.
Edit: However, there is an undercurrent here. You are preaching to wrong person. Tell it to all those other transplants (retirees/young familes) from North taking away your southern culture and trying to push their northern culture in the south. I am not one of them. Take it up with THEM. I will go NORTH for MY culture, thank you very much. There is and never will be a substiute for the real thing, whether than is "pizza, bagels", or whatever. I just want to leave. You want to argue with that? I would think that would make a real southerner very happy.
You sound like a college kid who is easily influenced by Hollywood media that degrades the South, so much that you view other regions as superior and as having "true culture", leading you to speak negatively of your region and making yourself desire to leave. If I'm not mistaken, I'd say you're probably between 18 and 21 years of age, given your comment. I could be wrong, however.
Not wanting to re-fight the Civil War here, so to the original question: I believe Florida is a semi-southern state like Maryland, Missouri, and Texas. Some parts are traditionally "southern" while other parts are not. In a way, I think of Florida as I think of Texas--it's really its own region.
Once you get away from South Beach, and away from Disney World, yes. I've been in central FL and up through the Panhandle, and .....yep, definitely southern.
if you don't believe in stereotypes then yes, fl is a southern state.
if you are archaic and still use the word "yankee" to describe a northerner, as if you just walked off of the battlefield, passed the burning cross and the trees with the strange fruit hanging from them, opened the door to your double wide, walked in, and got on cd to argue with ppl over this topic then you probably believe that fl isn't a southern state.
Once you get away from South Beach, and away from Disney World, yes. I've been in central FL and up through the Panhandle, and .....yep, definitely southern.
And I live there and know much more about it than you. The majority of FL's population is not southern in Culture. I would say about 20-30% of the population still has the true southern culture, mostly in the small rural towns. However the state is still a southern state because its located in the southern US, it just doesn't have the dominate stereotypical southern culture like most other southern states.
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