Why isn't Florida considered part of the south?

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Posted: 10/3/2014 11:12:54 AM EDT

That is all.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:13:27 AM EDT

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Bugs Bunny started it.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:14:10 AM EDT

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You know that saying in Florida, the further North you go, the more South you get. FWIW, S FL is not part of the south. It is it's own little microcosm. I would consider N FL part of the south.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:14:33 AM EDT

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N FL is part of the south... S FL is the Caribbean

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:14:37 AM EDT

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Florida is the only true South. Fuck the Mason Dixon line and those Georgia Yankees. They need to dig a river, a river of freedom to keep the invaders out of their theme parks.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:14:53 AM EDT

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Because half of the state is Northerners or from overseas? Big cultural difference between N Florida and S Florida...

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:17:20 AM EDT

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Wish we would have got the panhandle.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:18:01 AM EDT

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Historically it was part of the South.

But, due to political and social changes over the past century, there is no easily definable "South" any more. So, people today make all sorts of claims about what is and what is not part of the South, based upon their own ideas.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:18:07 AM EDT

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Because they don't eat grits in most of Florida.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:21:07 AM EDT

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The number of first cousin marriages is too low and tooth count per person too high to qualify.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:22:38 AM EDT

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My wife and I are the only people I know that left Florida to move "up north" and still wound up in the Deep South...

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:22:53 AM EDT

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I thought places like Indian River looked very southern when I visited.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:23:50 AM EDT

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Geospatially half of FL is hardcore South, but the more populated areas have been heavily influenced by outsiders. So this combined with the fact that Floridians don't know how to BBQ often lends themselves to be people of no real desirable identity.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:24:32 AM EDT

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And sometimes we wish we were South Dothan. The 'LA' moniker applies in a lot of ways.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:25:44 AM EDT

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Wondered this also because one cannot go any further south?

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:27:05 AM EDT

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It used to be.

South Florida is another country.

I just spent a weekend in Baker Florida a couple weeks ago......I was driving down the road and I saw a couple pick ups on the side of the road....one had a big American Flag hanging from a pole sticking out of the bed, about 4 guys in a circle with a bunch of dogs jumping around. The dogs had a big boar pinned and some guy was stabbing the shit of the pig with a knife.

This was out on a main road.

Southern enough for me. Felt like.....America.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:27:37 AM EDT

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My great, great great grandfather thought Florida was part of "The South" because he fought on the size of the Confederacy against an Union invasion of Florida at Olustee.

Growing up in Central Florida in the 50s and 60s we use to play Dixie at all the High School football games and everybody would stand and sing.

One of the largest Confederate flags in the US flies at the junction of I-4 and I-75. There is a Confederate graveyard not too far from where I live and the flag is flown everyday.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:29:20 AM EDT

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Geospatially half of FL is hardcore South, but the more populated areas have been heavily influenced by outsiders. So this combined with the fact that Floridians don't know how to BBQ often lends themselves to be people of no real desirable identity.

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I chuckled.

Being from South Florida I know you are right.

Living in Kansas City now, I know that while I might not know how to BBQ myself, I know I love good BBQ when I get it.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:29:40 AM EDT

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Too many people from NJ there

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:32:58 AM EDT

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A good excuse to post this...

Watch and you'll see why it fits here.

(But no offense intended to my friends in Florida, of course!)

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:36:41 AM EDT

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It used to be.

South Florida is another country.

I just spent a weekend in Baker Florida a couple weeks ago......I was driving down the road and I saw a couple pick ups on the side of the road....one had a big American Flag hanging from a pole sticking out of the bed, about 4 guys in a circle with a bunch of dogs jumping around. The dogs had a big boar pinned and some guy was stabbing the shit of the pig with a knife.

This was out on a main road.

Southern enough for me. Felt like.....America.

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Awesome. Kill them all.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:38:06 AM EDT

[#21]

Florida is North Cuba.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:39:12 AM EDT

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It used to be.

South Florida is another country.

I just spent a weekend in Baker Florida a couple weeks ago......I was driving down the road and I saw a couple pick ups on the side of the road....one had a big American Flag hanging from a pole sticking out of the bed, about 4 guys in a circle with a bunch of dogs jumping around. The dogs had a big boar pinned and some guy was stabbing the shit of the pig with a knife.

This was out on a main road.

Southern enough for me. Felt like.....America.

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I live in Baker county...that really wasn't shit. You should see what they do after a few beers.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:39:59 AM EDT

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Wish we would have got the panhandle.

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yeah, AL. got cheated out of its Gulf Coast.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:42:26 AM EDT

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It's full of Yankees.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:43:04 AM EDT

[#25]

Cuz it's a damned yankee retirement home.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:46:24 AM EDT

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You know that saying in Florida, the further North you go, the more South you get. FWIW, S FL is not part of the south. It is it's own little microcosm. I would consider N FL part of the south.

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This, North Florida is mostly Southern culture - Pensacola, Panama City, Apalachicola, and Tallahassee more so than Jacksonville, Gainesville, and Ocala.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:46:50 AM EDT

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yeah, AL. got cheated out of its Gulf Coast.

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Wish we would have got the panhandle.

yeah, AL. got cheated out of its Gulf Coast.

Amen!

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:47:55 AM EDT

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Its NY with Palm Trees.

That and we don't even have our own signature BBQ

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:51:28 AM EDT

[#29]

Do they give directions with landmarks, or street signs?

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:53:17 AM EDT

[#30]

it is.

Posted: 10/3/2014 11:54:22 AM EDT

[#31]

You must not be from here OP.

Posted: 10/3/2014 12:03:46 PM EDT

[#32]

It wasn't even a part of the US till 1819 and didn't become a state till 1845.

Posted: 10/3/2014 12:04:45 PM EDT

[#33]

It is a hot New Jersey.

Posted: 10/3/2014 1:16:41 PM EDT

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It's full of Yankees.

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THIS.....

Posted: 10/3/2014 1:29:23 PM EDT

[#35]

The Yankee population.

Posted: 10/3/2014 1:31:36 PM EDT

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My great, great great grandfather thought Florida was part of "The South" because he fought on the size of the Confederacy against an Union invasion of Florida at Olustee.

Growing up in Central Florida in the 50s and 60s we use to play Dixie at all the High School football games and everybody would stand and sing.

One of the largest Confederate flags in the US flies at the junction of I-4 and I-75. There is a Confederate graveyard not too far from where I live and the flag is flown everyday.

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France has a bunch of Graves and American flags too. But it's still France.

Posted: 10/3/2014 1:32:08 PM EDT

[#37]

Too many New Yorkers.

Posted: 10/3/2014 1:34:00 PM EDT

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N FL is part of the south... S FL is the Caribbean

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Yeah, OK I'll buy that.

Posted: 10/3/2014 1:34:08 PM EDT

[#39]

FL is considered part of the South. What a weird thread.

Posted: 10/3/2014 1:38:30 PM EDT

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A good excuse to post this...

http://youtu.be/6ubTQfr_tyY

Watch and you'll see why it fits here.

(But no offense intended to my friends in Florida, of course!)

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Now I know what I'm getting for lunch.

Good tune too.

Posted: 10/3/2014 1:45:50 PM EDT

[#41]

A line running east and west just south of Ocala is the southern extension of the Mason-Dixon line.

Posted: 10/3/2014 1:47:22 PM EDT

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Is it too late? We would be much better off in Alabama. I live about a mile from Orange Beach and the difference in the infrastructure, development, and resources put into the Alabama coast is night and day.

Posted: 10/3/2014 1:51:22 PM EDT

[#43]

Get away from the over grown coastal areas and The Mouse .... you will find the south. It's hard to get more southern than Belle Glade.

Posted: 10/3/2014 1:58:07 PM EDT

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Wish we would have got the panhandle.

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Same here.
Our state government actually tried to buy it a few times.

Gulf shores is beautiful, it's amazing how shitty the roads and beaches get as soon as you cross into Florida.

Posted: 10/3/2014 2:00:26 PM EDT

[#45]

Florida is essentially 4 separate states:

-Panhandle (which I am fine with annexing back to Alabama) - part of the "South"
-North Florida (Georgia border to Hwy 50) - part of the "South"
-South Florida (Hwy 50 on south to Homestead) - not part of the "South"
-Islands (Conch Republic / Caribbean) - not part of the "South"

Posted: 10/3/2014 2:01:23 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/3/2014 2:04:32 PM EDT

[#47]

Because it is America's penis

Posted: 10/3/2014 2:14:18 PM EDT

[#48]

Florida is full of gray haired northerners looking for warm weather. Not part of south!

Posted: 10/3/2014 2:15:26 PM EDT

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This, North Florida is mostly Southern culture - Pensacola, Panama City, Apalachicola, and Tallahassee more so than Jacksonville, Gainesville, and Ocala.

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You know that saying in Florida, the further North you go, the more South you get. FWIW, S FL is not part of the south. It is it's own little microcosm. I would consider N FL part of the south.

This, North Florida is mostly Southern culture - Pensacola, Panama City, Apalachicola, and Tallahassee more so than Jacksonville, Gainesville, and Ocala.

This is accurate.
I lived in Tallahassee for 9 years and pretty much considered it South GA. You know when a popular country band is called "Florida Georgia Line" there has to be something behind that.

Posted: 10/3/2014 2:19:09 PM EDT

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