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Old 01-25-2015, 10:36 PM   #91 (permalink)
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honestly white people wouldn't even live in florida all that much prior to air conditioning. there's a good reason those 13 colonies stopped at georgia.
That's actually probably mostly due to malaria. There's also a good reason why slavery stopped at the Mason-Dixon line, as that's around the latitude where the climate for malaria becomes unsuitable---malaria needs a year-round average temperate above a certain degree, and that doesn't occur above the Mason-Dixon line. White colonists in the South died like mother****ers from malaria back then, which is why they imported so many slaves, because they came from parts of the world where they had malaria---unlike Europe---and were therefore more resistant to it. The entire history of the US with slavery was actually very much dependent on one simple microbe.

Same reason why most of the European forts on the coast of Africa in the early days were manned by only a few whites at a time. Otherwise they'd just die.

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that's pretty interesting, i appreciate the return

though through skimming google posts it seems it probably had more to do with geopolitics and england/spain more than anything else.
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Old 01-25-2015, 10:59 PM   #93 (permalink)
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that's pretty interesting, i appreciate the return

though through skimming google posts it seems it probably had more to do with geopolitics and england/spain more than anything else.
Sure the conquest of America was driven by that rivalry, but the slave trade was very much a product of the "necessity" of bringing in labor that could deal with malaria and other tropical and sub-tropical diseases. It may not have been the original cause, but I doubt slavery would have reached the levels it did without that.
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i was talking about england forfeiting florida to spain, not slavery
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Old 01-25-2015, 11:17 PM   #95 (permalink)
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no, i mean i'm not from the south. i mean i spent most of my life in south florida, but that place is so full of immigrants and new yorkers that it hardly even qualifies as the south. now i live in the stereotypical south and i'm more or less surrounded by crazy religious people.
I remember some elderly person talking about Florida. He started off saying he didn't like it cause him and his wife couldn't keep friends longer than a few months. He said that Florida was "very transient" and that "there's no one there between the ages of 23 and 63 [years old]." He explained that people go there for college and leave when they graduate, and that people go there to retire, some move back or pass on. Keep in mind I am not saying this applies to Florida as a whole, but just how this one person explained his experience when he living there.
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dunno it probably applies to a good majority of the state. keep in mind there's like a thousand miles of coast land to this state... only about 100 or so of which comprises its main metropolitan area

all i can say is the high school i went to had something like 3300 kids in it and damn near every other school in the area was the same.
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Stop hating on Florida you cold ass bastards.
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Stop hating on Florida you cold ass bastards.
i don't mind florida. it was just too expensive for me, tbh. it's not a good place to live when you are broke. the wages down there for unskilled labor are **** and the cost of living is pretty high. i might move back someday when i have more money, but i'm thinking i'll probably move somewhere else cause i like to change things up.
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i don't mind florida. it was just too expensive for me, tbh. it's not a good place to live when you are broke. the wages down there for unskilled labor are **** and the cost of living is pretty high. i might move back someday when i have more money, but i'm thinking i'll probably move somewhere else cause i like to change things up.
I am broke. I make it. There is are drawbacks to living in shithole areas in this country. I break my back to live in Sarasota. So that I can have warm weather, culture, (God I love a circus town <3) If I lived in like Oklahoma, New Mexico, um let me see.... North Dakota, Iowa, South Dakota, or Utah I'd take my own ****ing life.
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i do miss some aspects of living down there like the food and culture but honestly i probably prefer the weather here. i am of european descent, i wasn't made to live in a ****in rainforest. it stays relatively warm here most of the year, the winters aren't very long or harsh. but other than that it's boring as ****. much more beautiful than where i lived in florida, to be perfectly honest. has a sort of natural beauty to it. but still boring as ****. i think atlanta or charlotte might be better for me.
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