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Originally Posted by JManc
It's still the South but all carpetbagged to hell by all them damn Yankees and foreigners.
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But it's essentially been that way since Henry Flagler. South FL never attracted colonists from England or a massive settler movement on the scale of Kentucky or Tennessee. The economy was never dependent on slavery and therefore, it lacks a historical African-American population.
No one here is saying that the South is just a bunch of trailer park rednecks who revere the Confederacy, go to Church every Sunday, and vote Republican. Anyone who believes that is completely ignorant. But there are historical, religious, ethnic, and cultural ties that make up the unique culture of South. It's just that those ties don't extend to South FL.
And yea, there are certainly other, smaller outliers like Asheville but in no way does that compare to a place as large as South FL, which has a metro population of almost 7 million people.