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Originally Posted by MysticCat
With regard to the Gulf Coast, that falls, I think (though I stand to be corrected), under the distinction I was making between recent, or later-wave, immigration patterns and those that occured, say, over a century ago. And I excepted immigration of Latin Americans from my general statement.
As for Florida, I think it is indeed arguable that many of the immigration patterns in the last century have made Florida less traditionally Southern.
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I think the culture of the Gulf Coast remains other than "wasp-y" and I thought you were sort of saying that the earlier the immigrants settled the more likely they were to have given up the non- white, anglo-saxon protestant parts of their identity, and I think we agree that the earliest immigrants on the Gulf were not WASPs.
The coast is kind of its own thing. It's Southern and historically more Catholic and culturally/historically as influenced by French and Spanish influences as it would have been by Anglo-Irish-Scots. (Nobody is giving up Thibadeaux is favor of Thomas, or whatever.)
But other than LSU, the coast culture probably isn't that well represented in SEC Greek Life overall. It's too diluted by the WASPiness.
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