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Dallas and Houston do NOT feel Southern, LOL. Especially Houston. Give me a break.
They feel Texan to me, because, gee, they're in Texas.
Why on earth would they feel like Georgia or South Carolina? I don't get it.
Like I said before,what is Texan?If people that predominately came to the area now known as Texas today were from states like Virginia,Tennessee( (Stephen F.Austin-"Father of Texas,Sam Houston-Founder of Houston,),Beaumont Texas named after a woman of the founder from Natchez,Mississippi, John Neely Bryan(founder of Dallas),from Tennessee,Thomas Saltus Lubbock(Lubbock,Texas)Charleston,South Carolina.You see why some of the character in Texas feels southern to many people?San Antonio as I said before does not feel Southern at all due to the fact that the Spanish and Mexico was heavily there.It kinda makes sense why some parts of the state feel more southern than western and vice-a-versa.
Also states like Arizona,New Mexico,California,Nevada, etc.... are very western.They really have no influence that remains other than their own identity.
The reason so many Northeastern cities made the list is because they have the largest metro areas and this is measuring metros. None of the cities that made the list have a metro less than 5 million.
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Why is Houston down almost 10% in 2009
Texas's recession started in 2009 and stayed until February of 2010, job losses, non favorable position on oil & gas prices, and little to no job creation. 2009 was the year that sank Texas's economy too, 2010 greatly changed it for the better but 2008 was the peak in most places, Texas being one, Illinois another, New York & New Jersey another.
2010 though saw better performance all around from everyone. But for your question on why Houston was down 10% in 2009, whatever inflated Houston's GDP to grow unorganically from 2005 to 2008 (oil & gas) also caused Houston to see a large decrease too, and then in 2010 rectified it to see increase (although not reaching to 2008 peak figures).
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. Per MSA's.
