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Hmm what about the southside of Fort Worth...All these homes and structures in Texas regardless of Polo89 beliefs are structures that are found all around the south. Regardless of the new groups that continue to migate to the south it doesn't change the fact they are still in the south.
Former Trinity Episcopal Church, Ft. Worth on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenm_61/3026196661/in/photostream/ - broken link)
I didn't realize Austin looked that southern. After playing around with Google Maps I have a completely different picture of the city, at least topographically/geographically.
Hmm what about the southside of Fort Worth...All these homes and structures in Texas regardless of Polo89 beliefs are structures that are found all around the south.
Former Trinity Episcopal Church, Ft. Worth on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenm_61/3026196661/in/photostream/ - broken link)
Actually, none of those look particularily southern. The house at the top looks like new construction.
Ft. Worth is western in the sense it is not southeastern, sure. It is not part of the West as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau (i.e. Rocky Mountain/Interior SW). If anything, it is "western South." (a unique sub-region of the larger South where essentially Southern history and characteristics blend with aspects of the western post-bellum frontier era, set in a different type physical environment than the forested southeast). By the same token, it not the "Southwest" of New Mexico and Arizona. Southwest in the old sense yes...but that was defined as the western frontier part of the South. Not the southern part of the West (i.e. New Mexico and Arizona, and trans-pecos Texas, yeah).
Ft. Worth is western only in the sense it is not southeastern. It is not part of the West as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau (i.e. Rocky Mountain/Interior SW). If anything, it is "western South." (a unique sub-region of the larger South where essentially Southern history and characteristics blend with characteristics of the western post-bellum frontier era, set in a different type physical environment than the forested southeast).
Thanks man
Metro Matt knows East Fort Worth is anything but western....You tell East Fort Worth residents they aren't from the south they will look at you crazy....The African american presence is much greater in Fort Worth (20% 2000 census) than in Austin (10% 2000 census).
This is a great example of what TexasReb is talking about....The National Cowboys Museum of Color in Fort Worth... There where plenty of black cowboys back in the day in Fort Worth but they still retained there southern hertiage.
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Of this list, Birmingham's southernness ranks #1 although it's typically not as southern as people want or expect it to be either. Rural Alabama is way more southern-like than anything in and around the Birmingham Metro area. Places like Anniston, Gadsden, Clanton and especially Cullman would be alot more in line with what people are obviously looking for; southernness at it's core.
But still not as southern as Mississippi though...
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