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Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by Overcooked_Oatmeal
Both Dallas and Houston have elements of southern culture, but Houston feels more southern to me.
You'll see more of the traditional southernness from the native black communities of either city.
Neither are as country/southern as Memphis, Atlanta, Baton Rouge, etc...
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Originally Posted by WestbankNOLA
Let's squash it, because I don't want this to turn into "Is Texas southern or western pt. 2"
But it all comes down to your idea of southern.
Yeah I think we should, my brain is literally going to fry if I keep pondering this thought continuously. This isn't even about Houston lol. Oklahoma City is getting neglected from the conversation.
I think I'll let my confusion answer itself one day, it'll all just come into place eventually I hope.
Yeah I think we should, my brain is literally going to fry if I keep pondering this thought continuously. This isn't even about Houston lol. Oklahoma City is getting neglected from the conversation.
I think I'll let my confusion answer itself one day, it'll all just come into place eventually I hope.
Yeah, we did get off topic.
I've never been to Oklahoma City, but people that I have met from Oklahoma remind me of those I've met in Dallas.
FWIW, I've never thought OKC is a pretty city from the view of the interestates. A lot of people just see I-35 of I-40 and the views of the city are not that impressive. I would imagine some in the poll are voting based on that alone.
Houston and Baton Rouge feel the same to me and Memphis and Dallas are not too far apart in my IMO. The landscape sets those two apart the most to me.
Now, Atlanta....... That's when you get that southeastern southerness. Alabama up into the Carolinas
Wow I really do not get that same feeling when visiting both cities at all. I think Baton Rouge is more like Mississippi than it is Gulf Coast. Houston reminds me of Lafayette if anything in Louisiana.
I don't think Dallas is country; my aunt believes that. My aunt is from Houston. I think Waco is pretty country and I see nothing wrong with it. Only Houstonians and Dallasites get angry over being called country.
and I think Waco is too big to be country, country is for small towns
Dallas is a big city in the middle of the prairie. If Dallas didnt do any of that stuff, it would not have anything to fall back on. Its not as if Dallas is a naturally beautiful. They had to create their beauty which comes across as plastic and fake.
I strongly disagree with assertion that Dallas is country. Fort Worth is country. It doesnt make those places better or worse. Dallas may be plastic and a bit pretentious, but I have yet to find anything truly country about it. Maybe in the black community there is something different (since the only people I ever hear say Dallas is country are black).
If youre Aunt is from Waco, she would have no room to talk. Waco is pretty damn country, but its a strange combo of a ghetto/country mix. Waco is one of the more ghetto mid-sized towns Ive been to.
Lets keep it real Dallas and Fort Worth are right next door to each other. How the hell can either one be more country than the other?...
Lets keep it real Dallas and Fort Worth are right next door to each other. How the hell can either one be more country than the other?...
Going from Dallas to Arlington, isnt much of a difference. From Arlington to Ft Worth is like going to a whole other place. Its hard to explain. If you are not from the DFW area it is probably hard to believe, but the two cities are totally different and thats what makes having them next to each other so great. When I go to Ft Worth its like going on vacation to completely different state.
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