re: Texas and Florida are the South

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If New Orleans is The South, I'll include Miami and South Florida in too. Why not? What would make it not "the South"?

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It would be the population. South FL is culturally fed by droves of transplants from the Midwest (Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana), and NY, NJ, VT, PA, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, Central America, Canada, Eastern Europe, the U.K. It is rare to hear a Southern accent or to find any generations-deep native Floridians in SoFL. The real cultural South in FL is found inland or up in the Panhandle.