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Originally Posted by eschaton
I always thought the NYC expat population was more Broward/Palm Beach TBH.
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Yeah, and I would say that's definitely more true in present day, as far as Broward goes. Miami Beach used to be THE prime spot for NYC-area vacationers, snowbirds, and retirees. Miami proper also had plenty of NYC-area transplants, but that was a long time ago now, and there are a couple generations of kids born and raised in Miami/South Florida to those NYC transplants. They're not New Yorkers.
As Miami and Dade County became more Cuban-dominated and became more Hispanic and black, and with the drug trade and unrest of the 1980s, you started to see Broward County becoming more popular for white people... and much of that northeastern-originating population moved there in the 80s and 90s. Palm Beach County with West Palm Beach and Boca Raton already had that white NYC, and northeastern in general, expat population. Miami still certainly has plenty of people from NYC area, but it's not like it was. I think people have this notion that Miami/Miami Beach is somehow still like the Golden Girls or something.
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Originally Posted by JManc
Those other cities you mentioned still feel southern and identify with their southern roots in their own way. Miami doesn't. It's like an exclave of the north deep in Florida..which otherwise is fairly southern; Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Orlando, Pensacola and even the Tampa Bay area (which is over run with upstate New Yorkers)
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Yeah, they were all part of the South... pre-Confederacy, during the Confederacy, and post-Confederacy.
Miami barely even existed until
half a century later. That, right there, should tell you something about Miami's connection to Southern culture.
And yeah, the whole Tampa Bay area on down to Naples seems to be all people from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.