Southern Seduction : Canadian and American Snowbirds in Florida Since 1945

Desrosiers-Lauzon, Godefroy

From the author: "This thesis explains and analyzes the phenomenon of seasonal, long-term winter travel to Florida, travelers that South Floridians have called 'snowbirds.' It demonstrates what pushed and pulled [Canadian and American] snowbirds to Florida, analyzes their journey south, their settlement patterns and housing choices, their tendency to congregate together, the forms of their sociability. It mostly defines snowbirds as migrants who, down South, build communities of kindred spirits. In the fragmented built landscape of 20th-century Florida, the congregation of snowbirds produced unique forms of socialization and, we argue, of community. These unique settlements have uniquely influenced Floridians' debates about their own community-building issue, while playing a part in Northerners' views about Florida, the South, the North, the United States and Canada."

Ottawa, Ontario

2008

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Thesis/Dissertation

1945-2008; Florida

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