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I maintained a residence in Miami from 1988 till the mid 90s. First on Brickell and then to the Gables.....I can see how old timey Florida folks whether Southron or Yankee would resent becoming cultural strangers in their hometown..... I had a next door neighbor on Sorolla off of Granada ave in the Gables who had been there since the 40s and still called it My-Am-Uh....lol.....she felt isolated...sadly.

We lived in a little apartment at the corner of LeJeune and Alcazar when we first came from Cuba in 1960.

Now, it is my opinion that Cubans and Southrons have a lot in common. After all, we are both pretty Conservative, we all love America and we all love a good Pig Pickin'.

If your old neighbor really wants to feel culturally isolated, she should move out here to the Left Coast. There is no way in h#ll I'm ever going to "assimilate" with the tofu-eating, Birkenstock-wearing, chrystal-channneling, ultra-Liberals that define "American culture" in this neck of the woods.

When I spent a two year Navy tour of duty in Charleston, South Carolina, my California-born-and-raised wife spent the whole two years complaining about the South this and the South that and about being culturally isolated. I, on the other hand, felt right at home. :-)

Now, it is my opinion that Cubans and Southrons have a lot in common. After all, we are both pretty Conservative, we all love America and we all love a good Pig Pickin'.

We also both have an abundance of good looking women who ENJOY being female. Ah....Coconut Grove in the late 80s on a weekend night....100s of example of Latin America's finest babes...um um.

If your old neighbor really wants to feel culturally isolated, she should move out here to the Left Coast. There is no way in h#ll I'm ever going to "assimilate" with the tofu-eating, Birkenstock-wearing, chrystal-channneling, ultra-Liberals that define "American culture" in this neck of the woods.

I feel the same way when I go to the Wild Oats grocery here in Green Hills in Nashville...lol....I actually saw a bumpersticker there tonight that said "Pro Child-Pro Choice"...lol...I wanted to ask the Birkie/Dykie what exactly she meant but my wife restrained me...we've been keyed enough already.