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re: Why don't people from Florida have accents?
Posted on 2/13/20 at 9:55 am to Emteein
Posted on 2/13/20 at 9:55 am to Emteein
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LOL wut? they definitely have accents, its the LA accent. I'm looking at you crestview and defuniak springs
You probably need to clarify that by LA you mean lower alabama, but yes. It's very much a wiregrass accent, which does differ slightly from the mobile bay accent
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Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:10 am to Palomitz
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Come down to Miami and you will hear a lot of Tony Montanas here. Okey meng?
A lot who sound like Bernie Sanders too.
As other said, Panhandle and much of N. Florida is more S. Alabama/S. Georgia.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:25 am to 777Tiger
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very few people in FL that are actually from FL
Ehhhh... 36% of Florida residents are native Floridians. Which means there are almost 3 million more native Floridians than total residents of Louisiana
This post was edited on 2/13/20 at 10:27 am
Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:28 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Gainesville is about the line. Any farther south and you’re basically on Long Island. I’ve got family in the Jacksonville area and they have that real thick drawn out southern accent.
This post was edited on 2/13/20 at 10:29 am
Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:31 am to MoarKilometers
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. 36%
nowhere near a majority, not even close, sort of reinforces what I said
also includes a lot of transients that factor in at the time of the census(or however the data is collected,) my son for example, he was born in FL(a native,) shortly after we moved there, but we moved away when he was nine years old, he's never been back(as a resident)
Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:35 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Florida is full of transplants from up and down the east coast. It’s the natives who are ridiculously trashy and stupid/foolish.
Growing up, I always considered FL as “NY jr.”
Growing up, I always considered FL as “NY jr.”
Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:36 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Some do. Just depends on area.
People in the panhandle have them. North Florida and small towns in central Florida have them as well
Just not as heavy because we get so many people moving here from other parts of the country
People in the panhandle have them. North Florida and small towns in central Florida have them as well
Just not as heavy because we get so many people moving here from other parts of the country
Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:40 am to 777Tiger
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also includes a lot of transients that factor in at the time of the census(or however the data is collected,) my son for example, he was born in FL(a native,) shortly after we moved there, but we moved away when he was nine years old, he's never been back(as a resident)
Well he's not a Florida resident, so he wouldn't be counted as a native resident. I wasn't tracking just births in Florida.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:45 am to MoarKilometers
For nine years he would have been included in that data as a native, I know many families, just in my company that had kids in Fl and moved out of the state, stats can usually be used to argue any point, for example, 36% is a low figure of total population, even though, as you pointed out, it may represent a high number because the population of Fl is much greater than that of La
Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:53 am to 777Tiger
I can agree with that. And the figure has fallen 10% since the 50s, from 40 to 36%. It's still a very large number of people though, enough to out populate almost 75% of other states.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 11:00 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
They have some varying Florida cracker type accents I’ve noticed among native Floridians (usually from the west coast and up 75 towards 95 and in NE Florida. Not many down here in S Fla that aren’t from the NE.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 11:15 am to Emteein
Spanish/Latin definitely dominates the Miami area. Florida is so transient and so diverse. In 2018 alone 14,300 homes in Miami/Dade County were purchased by foreign investors.
On weekends I work at a place in the Keys that has people from over 17 countries working there. Out of every 100 people I know living in South Florida about 1-2 of them were born in Florida. About 25 out of the 100 weren’t born in the US.
On weekends I work at a place in the Keys that has people from over 17 countries working there. Out of every 100 people I know living in South Florida about 1-2 of them were born in Florida. About 25 out of the 100 weren’t born in the US.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 11:17 am to HempHead
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waterhead
I hate myself for laughing at this term.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 11:34 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
ahhhh Florida...The farther north you go, the farther south you get
and yes, they have an accent!
and yes, they have an accent!
Posted on 2/13/20 at 11:58 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
because no one is "from" florida
Posted on 2/13/20 at 12:14 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
I grew up near Pensacola and have a very distinctive lower Alabama accent.
If you're talking about jokers from Orlando, Tampa, Miami, etc., that's because they are Yankees. Get 30 miles from the coast and away from the I-4 corridor and you will find the accents.
ETA: And for the record, the rednecks from Salt Springs, Eustis, Pahokee, Wauchula, Arcadia, Chiefland, Sopchoppy, Blountstown, Chipley, Macclenny, Palatka, Lake Bulter, etc., would give your New Iberia baws all they wanted and then some - probably end up destroying the damn Sonic and burying it in truck nuts.
Those sandhill cracker types are a different breed.
If you're talking about jokers from Orlando, Tampa, Miami, etc., that's because they are Yankees. Get 30 miles from the coast and away from the I-4 corridor and you will find the accents.
ETA: And for the record, the rednecks from Salt Springs, Eustis, Pahokee, Wauchula, Arcadia, Chiefland, Sopchoppy, Blountstown, Chipley, Macclenny, Palatka, Lake Bulter, etc., would give your New Iberia baws all they wanted and then some - probably end up destroying the damn Sonic and burying it in truck nuts.
Those sandhill cracker types are a different breed.
This post was edited on 2/13/20 at 12:25 pm
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