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Nobody else hears it either. I'll tell the story again: a friend and I study Vocal Performance at Boston University, both born and raised in Houston, and we have to take an English diction class for our degree. The first day we introduced ourselves and based on our speech pattern/pronunciation, the teacher could at the very least guess the region where everyone else was from, but was stumped by my friend and I. I will admit, I can get a little casual Southern accent when I talk with my mom.
That is like me. I live in Houston, Texas and when I went to camp in Colorodo one of the campers thought that I was from California. People tell me that I do not have a Southern accent.
Atlanta is definitely Southern (so why is it up there?) since it is in the middle of the Deep South. Its now between Dallas and Houston; Great Plains Midwestern scenery Dallas vs. Southern California vibe along the (Texas) Gulf Coast Houston.
Houston most definitely does NOT have a Southern California vibe none of these cities really do but the closest would be Austin but it's not even listed on here but out of the 3 Dallas has more in common with California, it has IN N OUT burger a strict southern California food chain, the city layout is kinda like Los Angeles with most the metro being suburbs but the area is still called Dallas, A LOT of Hispanics, he'll the city is only 50% white and the metro is only 28% non Hispanic white. That's why Californians mostly either go to the DFW or Austin, believe me Houston is nothing like Southern California.
Houston most definitely does NOT have a Southern California vibe none of these cities really do but the closest would be Austin but it's not even listed on here but out of the 3 Dallas has more in common with California, it has IN N OUT burger a strict southern California food chain, the city layout is kinda like Los Angeles with most the metro being suburbs but the area is still called Dallas, A LOT of Hispanics, he'll the city is only 50% white and the metro is only 28% non Hispanic white. That's why Californians mostly either go to the DFW or Austin, believe me Houston is nothing like Southern California.
Geographically and demographically, Houston and Southern California definitely have similarities.
Texas, Lousianna, and Arkansas compliments each other. Most people from Northern LA and southern Arkansas move to DALLAS for better oportunies because Dallas is the largest city in the region. Houston influence on southern Lousianna has increased drastically since the hurricane devastated New Orleans.
Houston and southern louisiana have been tied together LONG before hurricane Katrina. Houston has always been the city of opportunity for sw louisiana.
Geographically and demographically, Houston and Southern California definitely have similarities.
Houston is more Southern than Dallas, but Houston also looks more like most of LA than Dallas does as well so it's an interesting combination. Houston and LA have the ugly urban grit, seas of concrete and the oil refineries and shipping ports. Dallas looks more like the Westside of LA (West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, etc).
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