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Originally Posted by Crawford
I agree, but I think it's more the nation's midsection. Like everything west of the Appalachians, excluding the Ohio River Valley, basically through the Great Plains.
I mean, Texas really doesn't have a lot of quality small town urbanity. Even bigger towns like Amarillo and Lubbock have pathetic cores. Granted, TX was poor and ranching-oriented in the prewar era, but still. There's almost nothing.
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Galveston maybe? It was badly damaged of course by the 1900 hurricane, but
there's some traditional urbanity downtown, and
some historic homes survive -
even less grand ones.
Of course, Galveston has been semi-absorbed by the Houston MSA these days, so it probably doesn't count any longer.