re: Houston is the cultural capital of the South

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Of those, I’d only include LR and Huntsville in the Southeast.

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So you're arbitrarily shrinking the region to fit with your point. Gotcha. North Carolina is definitely in the Southeast. Northern Virginia is debatable, I guess, but I still consider DC to be the northernmost Southern city.

And, no offense, but all you have to do is google "cities with most economic growth" and read a couple of articles to know that your point about the lack of economic growth in the South was not entirely correct.