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And I will believe what I choose considering that I lived in Florida for many years. Florida is not Southern.
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<p>Some parts of Florida are going to have more displaced Northerneres...and others won't. It all depends on where you're at and the area's draw to old people from New Hampshire. I assume you haven't lived in all of Florida? Haha. The other posters are right...you don't cross a border and suddenly become "not Southern".</p>
<p>My grandparents lived in Louisiana, Georgia, and North Carolina for different parts of their life, and so I consider them just as "Southern" as you, and they feel right at home in Florida.</p>
<p>You seem to be getting pretty defensive. I think it's obvious that a state as large as Florida will have different pockets of communities. For the record they live north of Gainesville, which I guess is Northern-Centralish Florida. Which doesn't make it Tallahassee, but maybe that explains it? Or maybe not.</p>
<p>Don't get all self-righteous calling yourself Southern. I may have been born and raised in Maryland (middle state! ha!), but my family was born and raised in the South (North Carolina)...so I think I know Southern when I see it. Unless North Carolina isn't Southern, either? Are you going to say you lived in Duck all of your life and that's not "Southern"?</p>