atlanta smaller population, smaller city area and smaller metro than dallas and houston. so if population cojones is your main metric, then no.
if you want to get down to southern pop culture, then for movies gone with the wind is pretty hard to beat, but giant gives it a classic hollywood era run for the money. and overall there are many more and better movies and stuff set in texas than georgia. they arent all sw texas settings either, like the tv show king of the hill. music between the two states is probably a tie though.
