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I think the tea thing is a bad indicator of southerness in general but I haven't heard any one mention the fact that Florida in general has a lot of older people. Older people don't care for a lot of sugar and from my experience, areas that have an older population tend to carry unsweetened tea as the standard and will have different sweetener options to choose from at the table. Just as restaurants near older populations tend to use a lot less salt on average when cooking. Most tea belt maps I've seen have most of Florida being mixed with Miami being mainly unsweet.
Every stereotype about a particular region is silly to classify a whole region. Imagine being not a true northeastern city because you don't have a subway or aren't a 2nd generation immigrant from Europe.
I think Houston is a resemblance of a few southern subcultures, states, and cities. The southeast side and Galveston County are very reminiscent of Orlando; Baybrook Mall looks like The Florida Mall. The east side looks like Lake Charles. The northeast and north sides remind me of Hammond/Slidell area, Mobile, and Tallahassee. The Woodlands and Montgomery County remind me a lot of the Piedmont region. The city center is a mix of Metairie, Tampa, and Atlanta. Pearland and Sugar Land remind me of the South Florida suburbs. The Katy Prairie and Richmond reminds me of the northern Dallas suburbs with a hint of Acadiana. Of course, the hoods feel like typical hoods in the south; Fourth Ward feels just like a New Orleans ward.
30 or 40 years ago Houston had a very strong southern culture, the old news clips shows how everyone had a southern drawl; so southern dominated, now it is no longer the case.
30 or 40 years ago Houston had a very strong southern culture, the old news clips shows how everyone had a southern drawl; so southern dominated, now it is no longer the case.
Still sounds southern to me. I also hear Tejano mixed in the last video.
Uh the last video is of Art Acevedo and he’s a Cuban American who grew up in California. He just recently moved to Houston. Maybe when he was in East LA some Chicano rubbed off on him like Cypress Hill or something but don’t hear the Tejano.
A Tejano accent legit sound like this comedian from San Antonio.
Uh the last video is of Art Acevedo and he’s a Cuban American who grew up in California. He just recently moved to Houston. Maybe when he was in East LA some Chicano rubbed off on him like Cypress Hill or something but don’t hear the Tejano.
A Tejano accent legit sound like this comedian from San Antonio.
This is true for every region of the country as well, nothing to do with a place losing its culture.
You seem to generalize the topic. Today, it is undeniable that Houston culture has been influenced by other cultures. The Hispanic population the majority, the Asian population is about 8% and the white population is a little more than 30%. 40 years ago whites made up close to 75% of the population and Latinos were about 8%and the Asian population made up less than 1%. That alone will tell most common sense people that the place is not the same no matter how you slice the pie.
As far as other regions of the country who knows? Have New Orleans, Philadelphia, Saint louis, Portland, Salt lake city, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Nashville, change as much as Houston??
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