[wardaddy]

In my day last century

Southerner Florida gerrymandered its way all through the state down to clewiston and Everglades city

And Homestead too

Even in MyAmUh as they called it

And let’s don’t forget Davie

Even the keys had southern acents

In the 60s it was still very southern most of the state

White shell roads and 41 and 19 as two lane US highways went forever

Silver Springs and Cypress Gardens

Destin only had the holiday inn and it was piney nothing tween there and PCB

Cubans and Jews did it

And the mouse

You’d always had wasp rich at Palm Beach and Hobe Sound and Boca Grande

Northern and parts of the interior are still southern largely

Of course in summer the entire south that doesn’t go to the Atlantic goes to nw Florida along with midwesterners too

65 is like UT game day on rental turnover day even up here in TN

Beach people

With kids did that for 25 years

One weird thing I noticed young in Florida besides the copper tone little girl butt in the billboards was beach dwelling youth had a southern version of a California beach accent dude lol

Did I bring back memories for us over 55 here

[Roadrunner383]

“Destin only had the holiday inn and it was piney nothing tween there and PCB”.

Yep, Ft. Walton Beach had a strip shopping center with not a lot of stores. There were always a few boats in the inlet at Destin and that was about it.

[dfwgator]

I remember driving through the Orlando area on the Turnpike and there were orange groves everywhere.

[spankalib]

Yep. You brought back some memories.

I lived in Davie & worked "across the street" at BCC.