Florida Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
state of the United States of America
About Florida
While Florida is considered to be part of theSouth, it originated not as a British colony, but as a Spanish one. As a result, the state has a unique history. Although Florida was a founding member of the Confederate States of America, and like other Southern states shared the experience of slavery and racial segregation during its history, today, Florida is avery diversestate. It is almost evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, and contains a number of regions with slight cultural differences of their own that contribute to the state's diversity. Therefore, no one accent dominates in the speech of its residents, and it's often said that Florida is the only state that gets more "Southern" the farthernorthyou go, and that is indeed true in a cultural sense. Florida was inhabited b
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