Remember, much of Florida is about as Southern as the Beltway.
Although Ocala may be Southern, and the panhandle certainly is, I'll bet the
populace of Clearwater thinks d-yankee ought to be two words.
-Dave
switchboard.com corroborates. asking for a few hundred businesses with
"dixie" or "american" and taking ratios by area code gives the following
scores:
3.8 (850) the panhandle
1.9 (352) Ocala area
0.9 (813) Clearwater area
0.4 (305) Miami area