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Houston is the stereotypical cowboy city. The entire city was built on Texas oil money. You'll probably never see a city where American Football is so popular. George Bush is god as far as they are concerned. Period.

I definitely wouldn't say all American large cities are the same, they are VERY different depending on where you go. Like VEGAN said, don't let Houston be your view of America as a whole.

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Houston is an enormous city and I don't believe it's so much different from other huge cities in the middle of the country and the people there are nowhere near as homogeneous as you suggest. Sure you can generalize a bit but this is like saying that all people in, say, Los Angeles have bleach-blonde hair, plastic surgery, drive convertibles and are all assholes.

I live in Austin and although it is much more, um, liberal and whatnot - it is also much smaller and people still need to go to Dallas or Houston for world-class things like theater, museums, and restaurants. Lay off Texas, people. Houston is a fine city to visit.

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Yeah, maybe in a political cartoon. We do have real people down here, y'know. I'd actually say the city of Houston is far more "liberal" than people think. We even have a gay mayor. Anyway, it's not the best city to base your opinion of the U.S. off of, but it's not bad at all! If I was a more reasonable distance to it (I'm about an hour offset currently) I'd say let's grab a beer. Then again I wouldn't say that because I'm not 21 and couldn't go to a bar and drink it. So the most we could do is grab lunch, which is kinda weird because I don't even know you well over the internet... so, yeah anyway have fun! If you get any free time, Houston's concert houses and it's theaters are pretty nice, and Rice Village is a fun place to hang out.