2007-07-02 08:26:05 · 13 answers · asked by muda f 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I think the accents stopped in Georgia. There was always a varied group of inhabitants in Florida, which explains the absence of the "twang".
2007-07-02 08:32:45 · answer #1 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those in Northern Florida, like Jacksonville or Gainesville, are more likely to have Southern accents due to the influence of neighboring Georgia and Alabama.
Southern Florida is populated almost entirely with people who have moved in the last 20 years or so from other parts of the country, and is far enough from the True South states I mentioned above to escape their influence.
My father moved to Florida in 1962 to join the space program, and the community I grew up in consisted mostly of engineers transplanted from around the country. I have no Southern accent.
2007-07-02 08:31:03 · answer #2 · answered by Diminati 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because I am a transplant from Michigan. Most of the people I know are also transplants from other states. The native Floridians do have an accent depending on which part of Florida they are from. If they grew up in a city with mostly northerners then they don't tend to have as deep an accent.
2007-07-02 08:30:45 · answer #3 · answered by bran72072 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People who are from the pan handle of Florida do have Southern accents. Further south in Florida is inhabitated largely by transplants.
2007-07-02 08:28:41 · answer #4 · answered by inaru816 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Some do...particularly in northern Florida around the pan handle region. People in South Florida (Miami, etc.) don't, bc those areas are composed largely of international groups (mostly from Latin America)...South Florida just doesn't have the same kind of history as northern Florida (not as conservative and White).
2007-07-02 08:53:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they're all retirerees from the north.
Also the southern drawl is from the African's raising the children and picking up on their accents. Florida was not a huge on the slave labor farms.
2007-07-02 08:27:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
We doan? Ya just not listenin' to the richt people.. there is a variety of southern accents in Florida.
Even though many of us do come from elsewhere, frequently that elsewhere is in the South also.
2007-07-02 08:29:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anna Og 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is true of southern Florida which is the home of Northern millionaires and immagrants from Cuba and Hatti. In the panhandle you would think that you were in Alabama.
2007-07-02 08:31:01 · answer #8 · answered by Dani 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because most people who live in Florida are originally from the north!!!
2007-07-02 08:28:12 · answer #9 · answered by jazzviolin 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i went down there to visit my parents and all the people i met down there had Italian accents (like them!)
2007-07-02 08:28:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋