(09-09-2014 11:48 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote: So what part is western? I thought it was either, North, Central or South.
West Florida is basically regarded as the panhandle west of Panama City, maybe Tallahassee**. Tallahassee across to Jacksonville (and dipping down to around Gainesville) is north Florida, even though Pensacola is as far north as they are. Pensacola is about as far west in Florida as you can get, it's just a few miles from the Alabama border.
Pensacola is really isolated from the rest of Florida. It's 200 miles from Tallahassee, which is itself pretty darn isolated, and 700 miles to Miami.
Pensacola is a LOT closer to Houston than it is to Miami. In fact, it's closer to some parts of
Virginia than it is to Miami.
** Actually, historically, "west Florida" extended past the current Florida/Alabama border and encompassed the gulf coast areas of Alabama, Mississippi, and eastern Louisiana all the way to the Mississippi river, including Baton Rouge (but not down to New Orleans). That was because the British and then Spanish colony of "Florida" actually extended all that way out west. I live in Baton Rouge, in the "East Baton Rouge Parish" (Parish being the equivalent of a county in most other states), and EBR is one of the "Florida Parishes", because before statehood it was once part of the Florida territory, not the Louisiana territory, and it was not included when the USA made the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803.
In fact, for a brief time in 1810-1811 the panhandle region from Alabama to Baton Rouge revolted from Spain and set up an independent "West Florida Republic" state. In 1812, this state petitioned for annexation by the USA, and it was added to Louisiana.
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