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My guess is that most Floridians consider their state to be a southern state. Its the folks in the other southern states who have trouble placing Florida lol!
It would seem to me from reading posts on CD that Maryland, West Virginia, Texas, WDC and Oklahoma (?) have at least some of their people who are divided of what region their state is in.
I wouldn't call Florida's cultural identity a problem, though. I was raised in the deep South - the only thing south of where I grew up were the Florida Straits and Cuba. I suppose that years ago it felt culturally "southern" but most people say it does not nowadays due to influences from the Northeast and Latin America. However, most people don't seem to have a problem with how Florida changed, and embrace it for its cultural uniqueness in the American South. Once during college, someone asked me if I considered myself to be a southerner. My reply was that I had never really thought about it. My guess would be that somewhere like Orlando or Tampa (where the "real South" - as some people would say - meets the NE/Latin-influenced geographically southern part of the state) would be the best place to really feel an identity clash between north/"international" and south, old and new. On the other side of the spectrum, I would say that this is present in suburban Northern Virginia - it's decidedly southern to northerners but decidedly northern to southerners. I would call it the "gateway to the South". Anything in-between suburban Northern Virginia and Central/South Florida is much too "southern" to really have an identity crisis: Atlanta, Charlotte (the "New South") and Richmond (the "Upper South") included. Even the "Triangle" area of North Carolina screams "southern" to my eyes and ears.
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