Most Powerful City in the South....Not Named Atlanta Dallas Houston or Miami (better, largest)

[dynamo fan]

I would lean toward either New Orleans or Charlotte. But I will listen to some of the arguments here before I cast my official vote. I know New Orleans extremely well, and I hardly know Charlotte at all. The dark horses are probably the second tier Texas and Florida cities.

[HumpDay]

Who picked Savannah as the "most"? That makes little to no sense. I feel like people just pick their city and say that they're done with it.

[Pyroninja42]

Originally Posted by HumpDay

Who picked Savannah as the "most"? That makes little to no sense. I feel like people just pick their city and say that they're done with it.

Yeah, exactly. I'm not picking Norfolk/VB even if it's home simply because it's not true.

[Shakeesha]

2nd Tier in no order:

Charlotte, Nashville, Austin, Orlando, Tampa, Baltimore, Raleigh, San Antonio, Cincinnati

3rd Tier in no order:

Memphis, Louisville, Richmond, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Birmingham, Knoxville, Greenville, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Virginia Beach

4th Tier in no order:

Jackson, Chattanooga, Tallahassee, Mobile, Huntsville, Lexington, Columbia, Little Rock, Montgomery, El Paso, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Evansville, Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, Asheville

5th Tier: The rest

Cities in Italics have significant southern metro populations and ties but are not usually considered completely southern

[Mutiny77]

Baltimore was historically considered Southern but Cincinnati and Evansville were never considered Southern, past or present.

[Shakeesha]

Originally Posted by Mutiny77

Baltimore was historically considered Southern but Cincinnati and Evansville were never considered Southern, past or present.

Truth.

[RVARoughingIt]

I'm going with Austin with Charlotte a close second.

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by RVARoughingIt

I'm going with Austin with Charlotte a close second.

Hmmm, why Austin? It does many things well but does it top any of the categories we're looking at? Doesn't seem like it.

[Pyroninja42]

Other ports on the East Coast could merely adapt if Savannah didn't exist. The Port of Virginia still has a *LOT* of available real estate to be developed.

[BlueRedTide]

Savannah is the port Atlanta never had. Savannah has the Coast Beaches and Ocean Access Atlanta wished it had