re: Houston-The culinary and cultural center of the south

Atlanta is easily the biggest carpetbagger metro in the south. Alpharetta, Norcross, down to Midtown don't have any fricking southerners left that aren't transplants themselves. It's a mixture of midwesterners, northeasterners, people from MS,AL,TN,SC,NC,FL...and Mid-Atlantic fricks. Not to mention the Hondurans, Salvadorans and Mexicans, in increasing numbers. Atlanta hasn't been a southern town since the late 1980's.

Houston is the international city of the south, probably by a good margin. But 30-40 years ago you could call Houston a southern town and nobody would've disagreed. Things have changed, for the better and for the worst.