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Originally Posted by msb0810
Dallas is not southern, it is southwestern. There is a difference.
Who on Earth are you trying to convince?
Texas = Southern State, at least East of I-35.
Dallas (I love Dallas for the record) prides itself with the Texas fair and Texas culture and this guy:
You cannot say that Dallas represents the Southern state of Texas, and then say Dallas is not Southern. That is not how it works, you cant just pick and choose what you are to make it convenient. Yes Texas is a Southern state & yes Texas is a Desert Southwest state. But Dallas is by far more Southern than El Paso (DSW) part of Texas.
Even if Dallas is not Southern, it certainly isn't Midwestern. The geographic location and weather patterns exclude this from happening. It's Great Plains or southwestern at least, but by no means Midwestern.
I think Miami is in terms of it being a financial center, and worldwide tourist area. But Atlanta wins in culture, they are the center of Hip Hop, and then they are also competing with Miami having Coke + CNN residing in Atlanta.
Dallas is not southern, it is southwestern. There is a difference.
Yes, there is a difference in this topic regard, and Dallas is not Southwestern as in Interior Southwest (i.e. New Mexico and Arizona). For that matter -- other than the trans-pecos area (ala' El Paso) -- neither is the rest of Texas. The "western South subregion" of the larger South would be accurate...but still part of the broader South. It has very little in common with the desert SW of New Mexico and Arizona -- El Paso region exempted ---- either historically or culturally. By extension, in microcosm, that of Dallas shares almost none of the same with a Santa Fe or Phoenix.
I think Miami is in terms of it being a financial center, and worldwide tourist area. But Atlanta wins in culture, they are the center of Hip Hop, and then they are also competing with Miami having Coke + CNN residing in Atlanta.
I'd say Dallas is more of a financial center than Miami. Houston also has the largest economy. Atlanta is big on the media and Miami is big on tourists.
I'd say Dallas is more of a financial center than Miami. Houston also has the largest economy. Atlanta is big on the media and Miami is big on tourists.
Dallas perhaps may have a huge financial industry, but Miami is known for having a significant amount of financial services industry located in its metro. These are largely foreign banking companies doing business with Latin American and Caribbean folks. Between Dallas, Atlanta, and Miami I guess it depends on financial industry you want to examine as to which one comes out on top. It's a slugfest.
Economically, Dallas due to the financial industry and high tech corridors. It is also the largest metro, beating out Houston, Miami, and Atlanta.
For Latin culture: Miami (but I know some Southernors do not count it as the south).
For African American culture: Atlanta
Dallas is also more demographically similar to the NE and big midwest cities so people (including myself) tend to gravitate more towards it.
For Asian culture Houston blows them all away by percentage & sheer number of Southeast Asians.
Houston has the largest Vietnamese community in the US outside of California.
Houston has the largest & only authentic Chinatown/s in the South. The rest are suburban wannabes where you can literally go blocks or miles without seeing a single Chinese owned place of business.
People who live in Fort Worth have to drive 50+ miles just to eat dim sum in Richardson (Northeast Dallas County) on the weekends
Last edited by Metro Matt; 10-31-2010 at 10:56 PM..
Economically, Dallas due to the financial industry and high tech corridors. It is also the largest metro, beating out Houston, Miami, and Atlanta.
For Latin culture: Miami (but I know some Southernors do not count it as the south).
For African American culture: Atlanta
Dallas is also more demographically similar to the NE and big midwest cities so people (including myself) tend to gravitate more towards it.
Houston has the largest economy out of the four though (and less than half of the Houston economy is tied into the energy industry). DFW comes in a close second. Atlanta and Miami are both in a distant third and fourth.
Houston has the largest Vietnamese community in the US outside of California.
And? Atlanta has the fastest growing Korean community in the U.S., and by far the largest in the South.
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Houston has the largest & only authentic Chinatown/s in the South. The rest are suburban wannabes where you can literally go blocks or miles without seeing a single Chinese owned place of business.
LOL! Perhaps this is the case in Dallas, but I seriously doubt it.
It most certainly is NOT accurate in regards to Atlanta, as we have discussed in great detail in the past. Miami isn't even a contender worth mentioning when it comes to this.
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