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Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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What is this thread getting at exactly?
Houston is not a border city, I think you're thinking of El Paso.
Oklahoma City is also not a border city, and Louisville can be at the border of the southern region and Midwestern region but nothing else, Miami is also not a border city.
Anyways to answer your question: Houston is located in the south, so it is southern, but culturally it's mixed, it has a very diverse culture. Yes it has some southern influence, but the whole city is mixed, there's so many different cultures that it's impossible to tell what Houston really is. The only thing it can be is international/diverse city. There is no one specific culture here that out does another, unless being Texan is considered a culture. =) But that's about it folks.
The most southern geographically- Miami
Most Southern Culturally- Louisville
Because the south isn't Monolithic what are you basing southern culture on Memphis/Mississippi Delta, Ozark culture, culture of New Orleans, culture of Nashville, Low country of GA and SC. The New south region, The Black belt region, upper south culture what? before we even start.
Houston actually have Creole influences
Oklahoma City has Native American influences from the southeast
Miami has Afro West Indian influences which are like the low country
Louisville is the upper south
DC is not southern to me, the city was planned to be at a location between the North and South, and it seem that historically DC was consider southern because besides New Orleans the south historically didn’t have that many major cities but 2010 it’s pointless. Time have change, the south is actually the most populous region defined by the US census. DC has nothing to do with the south to me.
But whether you like it or not DC is in the South because Maryland is also in the South despite Baltimore and the fact that most of Maryland is Southern by Culture.........
i voted louisville because houston is not a border southern city. its surrounded by the south in all directions besides the oceans.
like said earlier, given its large size and the immigration from other parts of the country that comes with it, louisville gets the vote. especially compared to those others. still plenty of southern dialect, food, religion, etc. in louisville.
I pick Houston; we aren't afraid of our past and our southern culture unlike these other places.
um, i dont know if "afraid" is the right word. it doesnt work that way. big cities lose their "southerness" due to influxes of people from other parts of the country. this has nothing to do with beong "afraid" or not.
that being said, houston shouldnt be on this list, because its not "border south" its surrounded by south, although its influx of northerns certianly has had an effect, but to a normal degree for a city of its size. of the remaining, louisville gets the nod, then maybe OKC.
um, i dont know if "afraid" is the right word. it doesnt work that way. big cities lose their "southerness" due to influxes of people from other parts of the country. this has nothing to do with beong "afraid" or not.
that being said, houston shouldnt be on this list, because its not "border south" its surrounded by south, although its influx of northerns certianly has had an effect, but to a normal degree for a city of its size. of the remaining, louisville gets the nod, then maybe OKC.
I use afraid because people see being southern as negative. It's an issue when you have cities in the lowest parts of the south (Miami) denying their southern ways.
If anything, this should prove to be an interesting discussion since there are several elements which could be said to define cultural Southernness. All of these cities are geographically Southern and have historical Southern influences, but are great examples of contemporary cultural cross-pollination because of their border locations.
yea there is. there is dialect, cuisine, mannerisms, customs, religious practices, all the things that define culture. you are simply wrong
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