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I consider the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to be the only true flyover country. As far as I know, pilots are even encouraged never to land there! Talk about "no international tourist destinations!"
The South is perceived to be a vibrant, unique culture and people from other countries do want to visit it over the Midwest which is not perceived as a very interesting place to go. Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans are all famous. Houston and Atlanta are not that well known despite their sizes and people don't know what would be interesting to go see there. I say this as someone from outside the United States who has talked about these issues with people from many countries.
How have I been proven wrong? When tourists come to the U.S. there are only a handful of cities they want to visit imo, NYC, LA, SF, MIA, and Orlando the rest fight it out for scraps but even then cities like Boston, SD, Las Vegas get most of that
because both regions do have international tourist destinations. Midwest main city is Chicago. The South (excluding Florida) main city is New Orleans.
The South is perceived to be a vibrant, unique culture and people from other countries do want to visit it over the Midwest which is not perceived as a very interesting place to go. Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans are all famous. Houston and Atlanta are not that well known despite their sizes and people don't know what would be interesting to go see there. I say this as someone from outside the United States who has talked about these issues with people from many countries.
atlanta is well known. houston should be better known based on her size. but it does seem the south has more attractions than the midwest. i mean, i know many midwesterners who go to the south just for vacation. while other than chicago, people from the south only come to the midwest to see family.
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