Lots of us don’t consider ‘Winter Haven, Florida’ to be part of the south.
YMMV.
LOL Winter Haven, Florida is definitely the south. I lived there for 12 years or so. It’s a small town, right in the middle of the state. Lots of agriculture, citrus, phosphate mining in nearby Bartow, and it is a very long way from Miami or Disney World or beaches or whatever it is non-Floridians think of when they think of Florida.
It was a nice place to grow up, frankly.