Is Dallas southern or midwestern? (Pittsburg, Memphis: school, airport, area)

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by Wittgenstein's Ghost

If you're referring to culture, no, Miami is not southern. If you're referring purely to geography, of course. But no one disputes that.

Miami is a southern city. It’s not the Deep South. It is culturally southern. Like Texas, Miami has other regions that impact it in addition to the American south.

Former Miami resident here.

[brock2010]

[quote=ParaguaneroSwag;64672107]Some people try to hard to disassociate with the South (as shown by this thread)

[/QUO What you say is definitely true of some although I will say that although Dallas is southern it's in a part of the state that's not so simple to put in a neat little box. It's a mix of different things.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by brock2010

What you say is definitely true of some although I will say that although Dallas is southern it's in a part of the state that's not so simple to put in a neat little box. It's a mix of different things.

I agree it’s a mix of things. American South, Bible Belt, Great Plains, Southwest, etc. Where I disagree is where it’s only a certain percent southern or “only mixed in” etc. These regions aren’t mutually exclusive from one another. While it is true that Dallas (and most of Texas) is not the Deep South where as Georgia is, this is different from Dallas being or not being the American South.

And, Miami definitely has plenty of southern elements as well. You don’t see them in what most people go to see (South Beach, Little Havana, etc) but you certainly do in the so called “real Miami”. Plenty of culturally southern elements. Like with Dallas, it feeds off of other regions as well (notably the Caribbean for Miami).

[4everMissouri]

Calling Texas midwestern is like calling Pennsylvania southern.

[michaeltx9412]

Dallas is a cross between the starting points of the South, the Southwest, the Great Plains, and the "Texas (a mixture of Czech/German/Mexican" culture. It has every bit of those regional influences. Not only that, Dallas also has a huge presence of international population that has emigrated from all over the world, making the Metroplex its own kind of cultural bubble in the same way Atlanta is.

[Wittgenstein's Ghost]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

No. It’s the other way around. Not reading into it, Dallas is the south as is most of Texas

I disagree completely. And unless you know where everyone on this forum is from, I don't see how you could say it's the other way around.

I'm from the actual south, and Dallas isn't it.

I'll let you have the last word. I've already wasted too many brain waves on this topic.

[RJ312]

Neither, though closer to Southern. East Texas, only about 1.5-2 hours driving east of Dallas, feels Southern.

Some people from small East Texas towns relocate to Dallas.

Dallas doesn't have much of a Midwestern feel.

[TheOverdog]

Calling Texas midwestern is like calling Pennsylvania southern.

I personally think Dallas is partly midwestern, also partly southern, and slightly western, and I assume you've never been to Pennsylvania with a comment like that, because the slang name for Pennsylvania outside the major cities is Pennsyltucky, especially the Appalachian part. So Pennsylvania is definitely partly southern.

[Mescalero]

Everyone knows Dallas is the capital of Oklahoma.

[hbdwihdh378y9]

Originally Posted by 4everMissouri

Calling Texas midwestern is like calling Pennsylvania southern.

I worked with a Yale grad from Wisconsin who called Pennsylvania Southern.


By the way, we're not talking about Texas. We're talking about Dallas. The first person I knew in Dallas was from El Paso, and he considered Dallas Midwestern.