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View Poll Results: Is Dallas like an overgrown Oklahoma City?
Yes, it is just like Oklahoma City. 62 36.90%
No, it is nothing like that Oklahoma City 106 63.10%
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Old 07-20-2010, 12:59 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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DC people are more urban; Dallas people just think they are more progressive and urban. However, imo they aren't much different than Waco.
Wait what? Are you saying DC people are like Waco? Did you mean to put DC in there?

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They feel to same to me. They both have that Catholic meets Baptist thing going on. The architecture looks the same. They both have the refineries and you have that Cajun meets the South culture. What's interesting is that you think Baton Rouge resembles Mississippi.
I'm just surprised because I never heard the comparison much less see it in person looking at it from perspective. I may be wrong with Baton Rouge and Mississippi so I'll admit that. I just get a much different feel between the two cities.

 
Old 07-20-2010, 01:04 PM
 
Location: New Orleans, United States
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I'm just surprised because I never heard the comparison much less see it in person looking at it from perspective. I may be wrong with Baton Rouge and Mississippi so I'll admit that. I just get a much different feel between the two cities.
I've seen it on the forum a couple of times.
Houston and Lafayette is a hard one for me to see unless it's strictly the new parts, but Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and Jefferson Parish could easily be mistaken for Houston IMO.
 
Old 07-20-2010, 01:05 PM
 
Location: At your mama's house
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Wait what? Are you saying DC people are like Waco? Did you mean to put DC in there?


I'm just surprised because I never heard the comparison much less see it in person looking at it from perspective. I may be wrong with Baton Rouge and Mississippi so I'll admit that. I just get a much different feel between the two cities.
No, I think he's saying that he thinks people in Dallas are similar to Waco in culture and attitude. It's the same region, it should be.

DC is way more urbane in personality and culture than Dallas is. It was a breath of fresh air moving up here.
 
Old 07-20-2010, 01:07 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Honestly, I think Houston is a hard city to classify on what region it fits in best. (being the center of two regions- unlike any other city in USA)

It is the only city in the South that is apart of two mega regions, and it does have a lot of Louisiana like characteristics and Texan ones too. I think I have even made a thread about this once before.

There is nothing wrong, it might just give off a different feel to everyone. I see it having more in common with Corpus Christi than anything else, IMHO.

 
Old 07-20-2010, 01:51 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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No, I think he's saying that he thinks people in Dallas are similar to Waco in culture and attitude. It's the same region, it should be.

DC is way more urbane in personality and culture than Dallas is. It was a breath of fresh air moving up here.
Yeah I know that part. I was just thrown off by him putting DC in there. I also said that Dallas was like a bigger Waco but it's starting to sway from that a bit.
 
Old 07-20-2010, 03:16 PM
 
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
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Happy not to be at the center of one of these debates for a change!
This thread was about OKC and Dallas, but everyone got off topic.
 
Old 07-20-2010, 04:11 PM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Wait what? Are you saying DC people are like Waco? Did you mean to put DC in there?


I'm just surprised because I never heard the comparison much less see it in person looking at it from perspective. I may be wrong with Baton Rouge and Mississippi so I'll admit that. I just get a much different feel between the two cities.
I was saying Dallas feel like Waco. The people in DC have a more urban mindset than Wacoans and Dallasities. So no I was not saying Waco and DC people are the same.
 
Old 07-20-2010, 05:26 PM
 
Location: New Mexico to Texas
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Abilene and Waco are about the same size.

I dont consider Abilene country either, smaller towns are country, like Plainview,TX or Luling,TX. I dont see how one can be country but live in a city.
 
Old 07-20-2010, 06:27 PM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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^Dude, that sounds so country..
I am country.
 
Old 07-20-2010, 11:14 PM
 
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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