Florida is only culturally part of the south from Ocala on north. I live in a county named after Robert E. Lee, and there are plenty of Ohio, Wisconsin, and less occasionally Boston accents, but “suthuners” are few and far between.
Cruz is as much Texas as the Kenyan was Illinois.
Oh, were still Southern. Don’t make us prove it.
Texas and Florida are in the “American South” and parts of the Confederacy — so were New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Often when people mention “the South” they are thinking of “Dixie South”
—Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana being the hard core.
—Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia being the middle tier.
—The others being associate members with more of a separate identity.
Gibberish diearea of the mouth from Politico.
Ted Cruz will shine were others have failed.
Maybe that idiot at Politico needs to rethink his premise. The GOP isn’t a “Southern” party. It’s an American party. The GOP represents America. The democrats represent big cities and academia towns.
If Texas aint southern then drive from Texline to Clayton and tell me accents don’t change pronto
And no more sweet tea
Only folks who claim otherwise are yankees who moved there since early 80s oil boom and are ashamed of it
I’ve argued this with yankee Texans before
And the relationship between Bonnie Blue and original Lone Star and Scott and Troutman flags
Silly people
To be honest
Dallas Ft Worth is arguably still the largest cluster of southern speaking whites in the US and not coincidentally damn hospitable folks to be so huge
I’m there annually sure seems that way to me
Another shocker
Oklahoma. Southern too
Politico? Dang.
Republicans know absolutely that no self-respecting conservative southerner will vote for any of the Democrat candidates. Their only worry is that if the candidate that rises to the top is too RINO then southerners might stay home.