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View Poll Results: What is Greater Houston's REAL Culture?
Southern 5 17.24%
Southwestern 5 17.24%
Gulf Coast 19 65.52%
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Old 11-23-2010, 09:41 PM
 
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OMG! KCOH 1430 A.M. is just like the Blues radio stations in Alabama! Houston is Southern! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Old 11-24-2010, 08:33 AM
 
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OMG! KCOH 1430 A.M. is just like the Blues radio stations in Alabama! Houston is Southern! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought I was listening to a Blues station at home until I realized that this was Houston.
 
Old 11-24-2010, 02:02 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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OMG! KCOH 1430 A.M. is just like the Blues radio stations in Alabama! Houston is Southern! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not understanding though. Chicago also has a true down home blues station but it's not Southern. They also have a few Jazz stations.
 
Old 11-24-2010, 02:23 PM
 
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Why does it seem like people don't want Houston to be Southern? Being Southern is an adventure that I'm proud of!
 
Old 11-24-2010, 03:56 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Why does it seem like people don't want Houston to be Southern? Being Southern is an adventure that I'm proud of!
Because it's not culturally Southern.

Houston is a big city, and a big city (in my opinion) cant afford to cling on to regional culture like that. You are either Cosmopolitan or you are a Regional Cultured City.

Houston has Southern qualities, but that is just one ingredient in the recipe which includes African American, Chinese, Indian, Korean, Scottish, Irish, Italian, and so on and so forth to make it Cosmopolitan.
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Houston (much like Dallas and Texas in general) is at a crossroads of cultures. You cant really pin-point it to one culture. Houston is a cross of Gulf, Southern, and Hispanic. Dallas (and DFW) is a cross of Western, Great Plains, Southern, and Hispanic. Austin is a cross of Southwestern and Hispanic. San Antonio is...well just Hispanic.
I disagree with this. Sure Houston is on the Gulf Coast, and the Gulf Coast is distinctly a culture also, merchants who buy and sell fish, catch fish, a lot of that culture in fishing in other Gulf related activities even what food one near the Gulf can eat (sea food) determines the culture of a place.

Houston is far to large to be categorized as only Gulf Coast, Southern, Hispanic Culture. Me and several like me have none of those three in common, and we get placed under those three brackets? That's impossible, there is nothing in my life, my parents life, my neighbors life, or hardly anyone I know that leads a Southern, Gulf Coast, & Hispanic Lifestyle (except for my Hispanic friends).

Houston is Gulf Coastal in the areas that touch the coast, there are homes there where fishermen live, where vast amounts of sea food restaurants exist.

Houston's Eastern end is Southern, undeniably it is because that's just the last area to develop.

And Houston does have large swaths of Hispanic areas.

But honestly why is Houston (And Dallas or Austin) defined as a cross roads of only these three things? I'm Asian, there is nothing Southern, Gulf Coastal, or Hispanic about me. There are 360,000 other Asian people in this area, and they will agree with me.
There are transplants here from California, Illinois, and other places that will not have any culture resembling those three.

There are natives here who wont categorize with those three cultures.

Houston is Cosmopolitan, because its a large and diverse city, and in my opinion its nothing else besides that. Cosmopolitan is different cultures all brought into one, including the three you mention and everything immigrants and people of other regions can bring in.
 
Old 11-24-2010, 10:13 PM
 
Location: Houston(Screwston),TX
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Because it's not culturally Southern.

Houston is a big city, and a big city (in my opinion) cant afford to cling on to regional culture like that. You are either Cosmopolitan or you are a Regional Cultured City.

Houston has Southern qualities, but that is just one ingredient in the recipe which includes African American, Chinese, Indian, Korean, Scottish, Irish, Italian, and so on and so forth to make it Cosmopolitan.

I disagree with this. Sure Houston is on the Gulf Coast, and the Gulf Coast is distinctly a culture also, merchants who buy and sell fish, catch fish, a lot of that culture in fishing in other Gulf related activities even what food one near the Gulf can eat (sea food) determines the culture of a place.

Houston is far to large to be categorized as only Gulf Coast, Southern, Hispanic Culture. Me and several like me have none of those three in common, and we get placed under those three brackets? That's impossible, there is nothing in my life, my parents life, my neighbors life, or hardly anyone I know that leads a Southern, Gulf Coast, & Hispanic Lifestyle (except for my Hispanic friends).

Houston is Gulf Coastal in the areas that touch the coast, there are homes there where fishermen live, where vast amounts of sea food restaurants exist.

Houston's Eastern end is Southern, undeniably it is because that's just the last area to develop.

And Houston does have large swaths of Hispanic areas.

But honestly why is Houston (And Dallas or Austin) defined as a cross roads of only these three things? I'm Asian, there is nothing Southern, Gulf Coastal, or Hispanic about me. There are 360,000 other Asian people in this area, and they will agree with me.
There are transplants here from California, Illinois, and other places that will not have any culture resembling those three.

There are natives here who wont categorize with those three cultures.

Houston is Cosmopolitan, because its a large and diverse city, and in my opinion its nothing else besides that. Cosmopolitan is different cultures all brought into one, including the three you mention and everything immigrants and people of other regions can bring in.
well the same can be said for any major metropolitain area located in the southern part of United States..Dallas/Houston/Atlanta/Charlotte/Miami... but I can agree with you

I guess cities who are dominate southern would probably smaller cities w/ a lack of transplants or other residents from different nations..
 
Old 11-24-2010, 10:46 PM
 
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I forgot that Houston has a little Creole influence.
 
Old 11-24-2010, 11:29 PM
 
Location: Houston(Screwston),TX
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I forgot that Houston has a little Creole influence.
yep Houston/Beamount/Port Arthur all have more then a little creole influence..creole/Louisiana influence...
 
Old 11-25-2010, 12:22 AM
 
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That's why Houston has so many beautiful black women.
 
Old 11-25-2010, 12:08 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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I apologize for not replying back sooner but to me, culture is something that most of the city's original residents have something in common. What is Houston's signature culture? Immigrants from all over the world doesn't give a city its culture, it gives it its great diversity and population growth. Houston is a southern city but I don't see a distinct attitude or culture from any of the born-and-raised-in-Houston residents other than "southern." And Houston has over 5 million people and has attracted people from all over the country; I've met more people that aren't from Houston versus people who have been here their entire lives.
Don't get me wrong, I love Houston and I'm thinking about living here after school but coming from Louisiana I don't see Houston having a typical southern culture or any other distinct culture.
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