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I think the South is such a humongous region and not all parts of it look or feel the same. Houston is "southern" in the sense that is part of the gulf coast region and as you go towards the east things start to look less like Texas and more like Louisiana. But it's definitely not southern the way somewhere like Richmond, Virginia is southern. Totally different thing.

Along those lines, the Midwest can be the same way. It's just too big to say that any place is "Midwestern" without qualifying that. There are a number of strong shared characteristics and history between Dallas-Fort Worth, Kansas City, Wichita, and maybe even Denver, but then I would obviously not consider any of those to be in the same region as say, Minneapolis or Columbus, Ohio.