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Well, I too have lived in N. Fla for a minute. I think once you get past Tampa (where I also lived for a while) and Orlando, you are in South Florida. The culture is just DIFFERENT. In N. Fla, it is SOUTHERN, like the traditional Southern that usually conjures up images of Georgia and Alabama. This includes the Panhandle (where I am right now), and all the rural areas surrounding.
Once you hit Tampa, the population gets WAY more diverse (in terms of ethnic origin, not race). My family that lives in Tampa is Cuban and some of them barely speak English. When I used to live down there near Ybor City (which was not the tourist trap it is now, btw) nearly all the signs, grocery stores, whatever, were in Spanish. If you got lost down there and didn't speak Spanish, it sucked to be you.
Orlando is not even close. There are so many different kinds of people there, it isn't even funny.
When you start getting into Miami (the area that I am familiar with at least), it becomes basically an extension of the Caribbean. Haitians, Jamaicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, you name it. If it is an island, there is a large representation in Miami.
Here in Tallahassee, many of the students are from S. Fla. Anyone can tell you how different it is.
Also, I am from Atlanta and moved straight to Tampa before coming here. I know the South, lol. South Fla ain't it.
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