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You do realize that Jacksonville only has massive city boundaries, right? Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, with more than 5.5 million people, has more than four times the number of people than Jacksonville, which has not even 1.4 million. Tampa Bay, the next largest metro, has more than twice the number of people than Jacksonville does.
Both of Texas' largest cities, Dallas-Ft. Worth with 6.5 million, and Houston with 6 million, are in eastern Texas.
I don't buy the stereotype that Jacksonville is another southern city anymore either. It seems to me like everyone says that but no one has even been to Jacksonville to see this supposed Southern culture either. I can say of the dozen or so friends I made during my life who were from there none of them fit the southern mold like the people I met in Dallas.
I've been to both Dallas and Jacksonville. I don't see what makes J'Ville UN-Southern. It's as Southern as any other big city. I don't see how Dallas is more Southern. Politically the J'ville metro is more Conservative than Dallas. I've seen more Anti-Abortion billboards, and billboards for churches on I-95 driving through J'Ville metro, than I've ever seen in Dallas.
I won't when such an absolutely absurd claim as this "both of the largest cities in both states are in the most culturally Southern parts of both states." was made in an attempt to paint Florida as southern. Jacksonville is by a large margin the smallest of Florida's major cities. Houston and Dallas on the other hand are hands down the largest cities in Texas, and both are in the east of the state.
Jacksonville is the largest city in Florida period. Metro wise, I get it. It's tiny compared to the other 3 larger metros in Florida, which all 3 happen to be less Southern than J'Ville. But facts are facts, J'Ville is the largest city in Florida.
Yes, Cajuns are most prominent in the Acadiana region of Louisiana, located in the southwestern corner of the state; however, many of their influences can be seen in New Orleans.
Not nearly enough "influence" for you to even make note of it.
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Anyways, to start off with, the time I spent at the Houston Rodeo Show last week is one of many things that confirms my point about Houston being less southern than Tampa and Orlando; the sport of rodeo is western in origin, and that fact that Houston has the largest display of such in the world allows it to fit in with other Western South cities such as Austin and Dallas.
Dallas, Texas does not have a rodeo. Louisiana, Mississippi, Maryland, and even New Jersey all have popular rodeos, so there's a hole in your logic. Houston Rodeo is nothing more than a carnival and concert for most in attendance. Furthermore, the average Houstonian has probably never even ridden a horse in their life, meaning that the cowboy/ranching lifestyle has little to no effect on our everyday culture. So, as usual, your argument holds no weight.
Many of the rreal Houston cowboys that do exist, though, are directly related to the cowboys of Louisiana:
East Texas and Northern Florida. A larger percentage of Floridas population would be considered southern compared to East Texas' relatively small population.
Not even counting the Houston area, more than 2 million people live in East Texas. I wouldn't say it's that small.
Not even counting the Houston area, more than 2 million people live in East Texas. I wouldn't say it's that small.
I would never consider Houston being apart of East Texas. And for the other poster, Dallas is NOT in East Texas. That portion of East Texas is far smaller in population than northern Florida, which is smack dab in the middle of the Redneck Riviera. Jacksonville is in the south.
That makes no sense. The whole reason why those people in the panhandle wouldn't say they are "Floridian" in this case is because that label has been stolen from them by Yankee families like my own.
Your family might say they are "Floridian" but they don't say it with the same conviction that a Texan claims they are a Texan. The concept of having been their own nation is personalized among Texans and as a result they have a different perspective concerning themselves as Texans.
There are probably more Lone Star flags displayed in Texas than any other state flag in the country. Just about half the houses in the state (particularly in the smaller towns) display a Star on their walls representative of the lone star.
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