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View Poll Results: What Major city do you think of when the South is mentioned
Dallas 24 11.37%
New Orleans 46 21.80%
Atlanta 134 63.51%
Houston 31 14.69%
Nashville 39 18.48%
Miami 16 7.58%
Charlotte 28 13.27%
Birmingham 61 28.91%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 211. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 07-07-2010, 05:51 PM
 
Location: Washington, DC area
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Birmingham.
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Old 07-07-2010, 05:55 PM
 
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Thats what I thought. It drives me nuts when people point to a cities black population as evidence that its Southern.
Fort Worth is southern end of discussion...
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Old 07-07-2010, 06:01 PM
 
Location: America
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Thats what I thought. It drives me nuts when people point to a cities black population as evidence that its Southern.
are you simply choosing not to read posts that disagree with your argument? i already told you that nobody is saying that
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Old 07-07-2010, 06:02 PM
 
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Okay, just for the sake of argument let's say Fort Worth is southern (which I agree with by the way) do you think of Fort Worth when someone mentions the south because I do not. I don't think of Texas at all, even though I'm fully aware of it's ties to the South.
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Old 07-07-2010, 06:13 PM
 
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Okay, just for the sake of argument let's say Fort Worth is southern (which I agree with by the way) do you think of Fort Worth when someone mentions the south because I do not. I don't think of Texas at all, even though I'm fully aware of it's ties to the South.
The big 3 in the south...this term is widely used among black professionals, black media...These metro's are the anchor and major economic centers of the New South...Often Miami is excluded for some odd reason...

Which consist of Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston
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Old 07-07-2010, 06:14 PM
 
Location: New Orleans, United States
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They do look Southern, but I ain't gonna lie, the 2nd photo you just posted of New Orleans looks like it could be somewhere in a less dense South Central Los Angeles.
I thought I was the only one who saw the resemblence. Especially in the suburbs.

Where does this look like it could be?
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Old 07-07-2010, 06:17 PM
 
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It's common knowledge that people refer to Dallas as the last point in the east, and Fort Worth as the start of the west.
That's what I thought also. I saw people showing pics of Marshall TX, Marshall looks different than say Fort Worth or Weatherford.
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Old 07-07-2010, 06:19 PM
 
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Okay, just for the sake of argument let's say Fort Worth is southern (which I agree with by the way) do you think of Fort Worth when someone mentions the south because I do not. I don't think of Texas at all, even though I'm fully aware of it's ties to the South.
Exactly. That's why I questioned CharlotteRepublicans choice of Dallas, before ATL, Charlotte, Birmingham, etc. I mean he/she is entitled to there own opinion, I was just curious. No anger here.
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Old 07-07-2010, 06:20 PM
 
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It's not like ALL of Texas West of Austin is devoid of trees, ok you showed me a small area of a smaller city that is a good 45mins to an hour, SLIGHTLY, SLIGHTLY, SLIGHTLY Northwest of Austin(not exactly WEST of Austin in the same since as San Angelo, or Llano, or something like that), so what does this prove? I've been showing you multiple areas of Austin AND the surrounding area, not 1 or 2 blocks. I don't see why it's so hard for everyone to understand that MOST of Austin and CenTex doesn't resemble the Southeastern US, and is not heavily wooded?

forest cover, while not much of a texan trait, is also not an exclusively southern trait either. also, youll notice that there are certain parts of the south (specifically along the MS river, that are not covered with forest very thickly at all. while the northeast is very forested. say hello to the mississippi delta


also, what texasreb said earlier was correct. kentucky, tennessee, western VA, and western NC tend to have similar trees to PA, OH, and IN because they are predominatly hardwood. where the deep south tends to be softwood. (although id argue that both of these areas look more like each other than texas). but the point is that tree type does vary over the south.
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Old 07-07-2010, 06:20 PM
 
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That's what I thought also. I saw people showing pics of Marshall TX, Marshall looks different than say Fort Worth or Weatherford.
Houston don't even look Marshall bro...Weatherford doesn't even look like Fort Worth....Just agree to disagree...You will never get it bro....
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