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Originally Posted by eschaton
To be fair, New Orleans was very atypical for the South in terms of having a strong "white ethnic" component, including lots of Irish and Italians. The local white "Yat" dialect is pretty distinct, sounding more like a New York accent than a southern accent. Yet no one ever claims that New Orleans isn't southern.
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I think plenty of people would agree that southern Louisiana is a distinct region from "the South". Few baptists or Methodists, few Scotch-Irish, very different history.
But the difference is that South Florida is basically a Northern/Caribbean colony. Not a distinct subculture, but rather a relocated "island" of existing, larger subcultures.