Is Miami a Southern city?

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Yes Miami is a southern city. The South is a geographic region not a culture region. The Deep South is a cultural region. Miami is the American South period and is not the Deep South. There are places that are disputed such as Bmore and DC. Miami isn’t one of them.

And on that note, Miami is a lot more of that stereotypical southern culturally than people are claiming. People seem to be judging Miami based on a few tourist areas. There’s a lot more Miami than that.

https://youtu.be/teEbNuDfo9w

[BrooklynJo]

The only people that are southern cultured in Miami are the African Americans.

[wanderer34]

I believe that the people who voted "NO" in this poll are geographically challenged. Just because a city was founded in 1896, long after the Confederate States of America lost the Civil War, disbanded, and went back to the Union, doesn't mean it's less Southern than Atlanta, Charlotte, New Orleans, Dallas, and Houston.

You have to understand that after the city was founded, Jim Crow was the rule, not the exception, for the black residents for Miami (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami#20th_century). Nowadays, the city is populated by mainly Latinos, mostly Cubans but also Colombians, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Puerto Ricans, and Dominicans, as well as transplants from the East Coast (NY, NJ, CT, PA, MA, etc.).

Even though the transplants and the migrants give Miami a different ambience in comparison to Jacksonville and Tampa, the cultural atmosphere in it's beginning was Southern until the Cuban migrants escaped Cuba in the late 50's to the early 60's. Finally, Miami is the southernmost major city and major metropolitan area in the continental US. The people who voted "NO" are just products of the American school system!

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by BrooklynJo

The only people that are southern cultured in Miami are the African Americans.

False

[BrooklynJo]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

False

Most of family lives in West Palm Beach and scattered around the south Florida area. So no its true based on my experiences.

I do not correlate the Hispanic, West Indian, Italian, Jewish, and Russian communities as southern either. The ethnic whites seem heavily influenced by northern culture and the Hispanic and west indians live in their own world and would be lost if they went to another southern city that is not Atlanta.

[Unsettomati]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

Yes Miami is a southern city. The South is a geographic region not a culture region. The Deep South is a cultural region. Miami is the American South period and is not the Deep South. There are places that are disputed such as Bmore and DC. Miami isn’t one of them.

And on that note, Miami is a lot more of that stereotypical southern culturally than people are claiming. People seem to be judging Miami based on a few tourist areas. There’s a lot more Miami than that.

https://youtu.be/teEbNuDfo9w

So Hawaii is the most Southern city of all?

Uh... no.

Miami is not Southern. It is southern.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by BrooklynJo

Most of family lives in West Palm Beach and scattered around the south Florida area. So no its true based on my experiences.

I do not correlate the Hispanic, West Indian, Italian, Jewish, and Russian communities as southern either. The ethnic whites seem heavily influenced by northern culture and the Hispanic and west indians live in their own world and would be lost if they went to another southern city that is not Atlanta.

Then no big city is southern. There isn’t one major city in the southern USA that doesn’t have a vibrant international population of some sorts. The south is an extremely large region, of course it won’t be exactly the same everywhere.

[jsha7277]

Originally Posted by kidphilly

Simple question

Simple answer:

What are you smoking

[jsha7277]

Originally Posted by BrooklynJo

The only people that are southern cultured in Miami are the African Americans.

True.

Not to be confused with the black Cubans or Haitians, who certainly are not US southern cultured.

[Bobdreamz]

Miami was founded by Julia Tuttle a widow from Cleveland and developed by Henry Flagler a New Yorker. Through his Florida East Coast railroad he sold Miami and most of Southeastern Florida as a Winter resort destination to people in the Northeast.
Northerners came on vacation and many of them bought land in Miami. The city from inception was never Culturally "Southern". Even the New York Times labeled Miami as the "Sixth Borough" back in the early 20th. century.
How Southern is that?