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Different cities throughout the south had varying degrees of living conditions for blacks. This has nothing to do with southernness. Atlanta was also one of those cities blacks were fleeing to.
But Dallas still had cotton plantations, slaves, poor sharecroppers, and segregation.
The living conditions for blacks in Dallas wasn't nowhere near as bad as it was for blacks in other places in Texas and the south. I read a book about this.
And I have yet to hear a good reason for the claim that Atlanta is more southern than Dallas.
I will say that southernness in Atlanta is more concentrated, but not more southern.
The Mexican and Tejano culture there makes it less southern than Atlanta. The Latino community is 36% of Dallas. It would be wrong to say that it doesnt affect Dallas' culture and make it less southern than Atlanta.
Im not trying to say Dallas isnt southern, but it is less southern than Atlanta. Ive said it before and Ill say it again. The Dallas is a cross between southern and midwest/great plains with a touch of western.
The living conditions for blacks in Dallas wasn't nowhere near as bad as it was for blacks in other places in Texas and the south. I read a book about this.
Okay well you have a book, and I have my mother and my grandmother who grew up in a sharecropping family in the Jim Crow south.
But like I said, none of this has to do with southernness.
The Mexican and Tejano culture there makes it less southern than Atlanta. The Latino community is 36% of Dallas. It would be wrong to say that it doesnt affect Dallas' culture and make it less southern than Atlanta.
Im not trying to say Dallas isnt southern, but it is less southern than Atlanta. Ive said it before and Ill say it again. The Dallas is a cross between southern and midwest/great plains with a touch of western.
No it does not make it "less southern", it makes it less concentrated. In other words, take the most southern neighborhood in Atlanta and it won't be any more southern than the most southern neighborhood in Dallas.
There are plenty of areas in Dallas where the Mexican/Tejano culture has NO influence.
Instead of people asking what makes Dallas LESS Southern then Atlanta, the REAL question should be, what makes Dallas AS Southern as Atlanta, and what Western characteristics Dallas DOESN'T have? So how is Dallas as Southern as Atlanta? Can someone explain it to me, because I don't see at all.
No it does not make it "less southern", it makes it less concentrated. In other words, take the most southern neighborhood in Atlanta and it won't be any more southern than the most southern neighborhood in Dallas.
There are plenty of areas in Dallas where the Mexican/Tejano culture has NO influence.
No it does not make it "less southern", it makes it less concentrated. In other words, take the most southern neighborhood in Atlanta and it won't be any more southern than the most southern neighborhood in Dallas.
There are plenty of areas in Dallas where the Mexican/Tejano culture has NO influence.
But you cant pick and choose neighborhoods to make your case, you have to take the entire city. The whole thing.
And if you take all of Dallas and compare it to all of Atlanta, you will find that Atlanta is more southern.
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