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New Orleans feels less like the rest of Louisiana than Austin is to Texas, at least in my opinion.
Non-hispanic white is at 47.1%. It's still a city lacking some color.
I guess it would depend on your perspective. 47.1% makes it less white than the nation as a whole, so I wouldn't say it's lacking. The small black population is less than ideal for me as well, but I'm glad that may be changing.
I guess it would depend on your perspective. 47.1% makes it less white than the nation as a whole, so I wouldn't say it's lacking. The small black population is less than ideal for me as well, but I'm glad that may be changing.
There's less of a culture shock from Dallas/Houston/San Antonio to Austin than Baton Rouge/Shreveport/Lafayette to New Orleans. So that's how I look at it.
If you had included Raleigh-Cary-Durham in your selection, that is probably the most liberal major city in the south. Your options in order go Miami, Atlanta, and then um Dallas and Houston meteos are not liberal at all. Id agree here with the consensus that Dallas is the furthest though. Also assumed you meant metros and not city proper. Gradually all four are becoming more liberal as time goes by.
I think we're talking about cities and not just metros. DFW as a metro is pretty much purple at this point -- Blue Dallas, Purple Fort Worth, and Red/Purple suburbs. Even though Fort Worth and Dallas are in the same metro, their political orientations don't really impact each other.
There's less of a culture shock from Dallas/Houston/San Antonio to Austin than Baton Rouge/Shreveport/Lafayette to New Orleans. So that's how I look at it.
Yeah me too.
I think a better example of a culture shock would be Tyler/Lubbock/Waco to Austin.
I think a better example of a culture shock would be Tyler/Lubbock/Waco to Austin.
Austin doesn't seem as wild or unique as New Orleans. Not saying that it's not unique because it is but I think everything about New Orleans is more unique when compared to Austin. Accents, food, religion, history, architecture are all stark differences. Austin generally has the same food, accents, religious patterns, architecture, as other parts of Texas. Nothing in Louisiana really looks, sounds, or eats like NO.
I agree, but blacks in general aren't that socially liberal. While Atlanta votes heavily Democrat, I would have trouble believing it's anything like Austin. Like I said, it's been many years since I lived in Atlanta, but I remember the place being Democrat, not liberal.
Blacks as a whole are socially conservative, but Blacks in Atlanta are liberal AF compared to other Black communities in not just the south but even some up north. I don't even see how this is even up for debate in 2016. Everyone knows Atlanta has a high gay population, but the attitude of straight people towards gay people is very open in Atlanta. It's not even an issue really or something that is given a second thought. No one cares. That's my mindset. And it wasn't until I was in my mid 20s and had lived in and visited Black communities in other cities did I realize that decent number of us don't think like that. A lot more Black people in Atlanta are into alternative religions and just alternative lifestyles overall than alot of those other cities you mentioned too. Lot of normal round the way AA brothers in Atlanta into stuff like Ifa, Wicca, even Satanic workship. You see stuff that is similar to Ifa in NYC and Miami but that's because of the large West Indian influence, in Atlanta it's mostly AA's into it. Also you got stuff like the sovereign citizen movement which is everywhere really but it's definitely a thing in Atlanta. Every hood in the A got that crazy family in it that home schools and births all their children at home because they don't want them to have SSNs and all that other crazy stuff. As wild as it sounds running across people like this in Atlanta while no where near the majority, is not uncommon either. And I thought that was normal until I left the city and starting exploring Black communities in places like Chicago and Charlotte.
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