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south
Saturday, July 18, 2020, 09:22

What you'all need is a translator, yankee to southern or yankee to grit! Although I am yankee born I have lived in southern states or have been stationed there a good part of my life. I digress. To a New Yorker or New Jersey resident, the "South" is Florida. Recently the South includes North Carolina to New Yorkers as land is cheap and living is inexpensive, and they flocked to Cary, Created And Ready for Yankees, and Charlotte and Ashville, where they brought their politics with them and elected, G-d help us, Democrats. Anyway, South Florida on the East coast is largely Democrat as well as most of NYC had retired there. The West coast is where the conservatives have normally drifted to from conservative parts of NYC, as Staten Island and Long Island. The older conservative Cubans were in Miami-Dade, but are now outnumbered by the NYC expats in Miami Beach.
I have a portion of my extended family that lives in Texas, Kansas City, and
Alabama where my cousin started a dairy with a bicycle delivery. When I asked him how he picked LA, as we used to call Lower Alabama, he said that was where the wagon threw a wheel. I never really knew if he was serious.