What city do you think of when someone says The South? (skyscrapers, state)
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If you include Dallas you'd have to include the the entire South West too. Dallas is on the same plain as Kansas.
If Dallas sits on a prairie...If Dallas was in its natural enviorment it would look similar to this....Praires are not exactly treeless or flat but what make DFW praires unique is the Cross timbers that lyes in the western half the metro area. Dallas has nothing incommoning with the great plains or southwest.
Atlanta is the city that comes to mind when I think of the south. I also think of Birmingham, Charlotte, Nashville, Raliegh, Memphis, and Houston.
I never really think of DFW or Miami as Southern, so they dont really come to mind. DFW has always been more Western to me (especially with Fort Worth) and Miami has always been more Latin American than Southern to me.
You just started a firestorm. Alot of people are gonna pissed at you. lol
Correct. Miamians always tend to disassociate themselves with the South, but factor in those millions of hip-hop dollars into the equation and Miami is about as southern as a fish & grits platter when they need to be.
This is all true, but Atlanta still feels very much “southern†to me. I lived in Birmingham for 15 years before transferring to Atlanta, and there really isn’t as much of a difference between the two places as people would like to think there are. Atlanta just feels like a whole lot more of the same thing. Larger freeways, many more malls, more hustle and bustle downtown with a lot of northeast transplants. The people are still friendly in Atlanta just as they are in Birmingham.
Atlanta's newer residents are about the most non-southern thing about the city, trust me.
I always said the same thing. From a Hip-Hop BET standpoint, Miami is VERY Southern, outside of that most residents don't consider themselves as so. Funny isn't it?
You just started a firestorm. Alot of people are gonna pissed at you. lol
LOL Ah, hell, Polo, that's all been kicked over so much by now I think everybody (at least those who regularly participate) knows where most everybody else stands. And not all that often are minds changed.
While DFW is not the first (cities) I think of when considering "classical Southern" images, they are no more "western" in the sense of fitting in as typical cities in the true West of the Rocky Mountains/Interior southwest, than Richmond is "eastern" as in being comfortably transposed into the "East" of New York or New England.
They are cities with Southern roots and original Southern culture which largely built up during the post-"Civil war" western frontier era (especially Ft. Worth) in a different physical environment that the cities of the southeast or Old South. They are "western South" and thus just don't have that "Gone With the Wind" aura advantage! LOL And of course, with all the northern transplants nowadays, not sure that would have helped much in any event!
I always said the same thing. From a Hip-Hop BET standpoint, Miami is VERY Southern, outside of that most residents don't consider themselves as so. Funny isn't it?
Yes. I think it's very funny. And for the record, I don't consider Miami part of the traditional south, but I also don't like the "southern for a day" or "southern for profit" ideology either.
LOL Ah, hell, Polo, that's all been kicked over so much by now I think everybody (at least those who regularly participate) knows where most everybody else stands. And not all that often are minds changed.
While DFW is not the first (cities) I think of when considering "classical Southern" images, they are no more "western" in the sense of fitting in as typical cities in the true West of the Rocky Mountains/Interior southwest, than Richmond is "eastern" as in being comfortably transposed into the "East" of New York or New England.
They are cities with Southern roots and original Southern culture which largely built up during the post-"Civil war" western frontier era (especially Ft. Worth) in a different physical environment that the cities of the southeast or Old South. They are "western South" and thus just don't have that "Gone With the Wind" aura advantage! LOL And of course, with all the northern transplants nowadays, not sure that would have helped much in any event!
I agree with this.
If Dallas is western, than Atlanta is northern. I could understand Dallas possibly feeling or looking midwestern, but western??? No way.
If Dallas sits on a prairie...If Dallas was in its natural enviorment it would look similar to this....Praires are not exactly treeless or flat but what make DFW praires unique is the Cross timbers that lyes in the western half the metro area. Dallas has nothing incommoning with the great plains or southwest.
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