Which is more "country" Dallas or Houston??? Set the record straight.. (Austin: gated, living in)
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Which is more "country" Dallas or Houston??? Set the record straight..
I have read many threads about Dallas and Houston with their similar but yet different cultures. From a black person's point of view, the blacks in Houston are always saying that the blacks in Dallas are more "country", have an accent, not sophisticated, their are no jobs and they tend to be and live more racially and economically segregated (South Dallas, Oak Cliff and the Southern Burbs). The only thing I have heard the blacks from Dallas (and Fort Worth!) complain about Houston is, the people can not drive, the traffic is horrible and Houston is too huge. The white's in Houston have said Dallas is too "white", incredibility boring, ugly, cold and dry, the people are too materialistic and snooty and they always dress up. Dallas white's said Houstonians are known to be loud and boorish blue collar hicks and their city is a unzoned, trashy, humid, huge and polluted swamp. It seem both races are on the flip: Blacks in Dallas are trashy and the whites in Houston are trashy, its funny in a way. I know there are a billion threads about "Houston vs Dallas" and etc.. Please, anyone, black, white or whatever I will like your comments from those who have lived in both and been to both cities to set the record straight.
They are both major metros within the U.S., their cultures couldn't be any more dissimilar. There is no comparison and anyone who tries to make that non-existent link is just blowing smoke up your butt. Keep them away from your children.
They both have advantages and disadvantages to one another. Neither is more nor less than the other. Regardless of which city you're in, you cannot stand on more than one block at a time.
Try one. If you don't like it try the other. Who knows, you may wind up in Austin.
And BTW, I lived in Dallas for a year when I was 21. Then moved to Houston for 25 years. Then back to Dallas for another 10. I've seen them both before they were big and after they grew bigger. I am a male, born and raised in Texas, not of Hispanic origin.
I dont think either is country. I would say Houston just because there are a lot of roughnecks and bubbas in the oil industry down there. However, unless you work in the oil industry, that isnt very visiable. Even so, in Dallas, African-Americans seem to have more of a country mentality. So at the end, if you have to pick one, it comes down to who you hang around in either city.
Overall, people who think either is country have no clue what country is. Both cities may have a thing or two about them that is country, but overall, I cannot fathom someone saying that either is country. For large cities that are country, I can only think of Fort Worth and Oklahoma City.
As far as the black population and the culture they bring between the two cities, I would say Dallas is more country than Houston. I've said this a couple times on here.
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Neither actually. And I don't know why in Sam Hell someone in the 21st century is asking this.
In popular culture its Dallas, just look at the famed TV Show Dallas. It was a cotton plantation and it got its way from the rail roads, and it started to boom. Houston was a seaport city, that is not an affiliation with country at all. Houston has been more international for a longer period of time, whatever "country" influence the place had historically has been washing away for decades on out.
Dallas in popular culture is country, and Dallas-Fort Worth with Fort Worth especially really gives it to them on this. Presently I wouldn't say either city is, but I still think Fort Worth is.
This is Dallas the TV Show:
Cowboy hats, overalls, tucked in shirts with southern braided hair. That is the popular culture image of Dallas depicted from this famed TV Show.
By media the people in Dallas probably weren't like that but that's the stereotypical image that Dallas got and showed. Even now when they show reruns of this and cast it in other countries and whatever.
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Not one of the cities are still considered country. Both Houston and Dallas are great metropolitan areas and very cosmopolitan, sophisticated cities. Alot of the people are still good down to earth folks. Dannyy, the tv show reference was classic. Charlene Tilton was a tough one back then. I forget what here character's name was. Geeze, Victiria Principal could hold her own back then too. That tv show made all of Texas seem redneck and country. Cue the Dallas theme song.... Don't forget the movie Urban Cowboy(filmed on location in and around Houston and Pasadena in 1979) screwing it up for the Houston area too. Darn, where are Sue Ellen(Linda Gray) and John Ross, J.R. Ewing(Larry Hagman) now? I can't remember, who really did shoot J.R.? was it Bobby? Or Cliff? Or one of J.R.'s many beautiful extramarital side women? Please let me know. Thanks.
Neither actually. And I don't know why in Sam Hell someone in the 21st century is asking this.
In popular culture its Dallas, just look at the famed TV Show Dallas. It was a cotton plantation and it got its way from the rail roads, and it started to boom.
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Houston was a seaport city, that is not an affiliation with country at all. Houston has been more international for a longer period of time, whatever "country" influence the place had historically has been washing away for decades on out.
Dallas in popular culture is country, and Dallas-Fort Worth with Fort Worth especially really gives it to them on this. Presently I wouldn't say either city is, but I still think Fort Worth is.
This is Dallas the TV Show:
Cowboy hats, overalls, tucked in shirts with southern braided hair. That is the popular culture image of Dallas depicted from this famed TV Show.
By media the people in Dallas probably weren't like that but that's the stereotypical image that Dallas got and showed. Even now when they show reruns of this and cast it in other countries and whatever.
a city can easily be coastal and country at the same time (mobile, savannah, pensacola, baton rouge, etc). yes, houston is a port, but it was also a cotton town and is every bit as tied to that culture as dallas is. houston just has a more diverse landscape of regional cultures
it depends on what one means by "country". both cities still retain their southern roots
Based on my experiences from living in Texas for several years, the blacks in the Houston area in general seemed to be a bit more worldly and sophisticated compared to the black folks in Dallas. However, you could find saddity and bougie black folks in Dallas just like you could find country, salt-of-the-earth black folks in Houston. As for white folks, they were a lot more laid-back and less snotty in Houston.
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