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Re:The era of cheap suburban growth and development is over by my_first_acct on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @12:35AM (#14253068)
Can't speak for the rest of the South, but Houston (which you might or might not count as a Southern city) elected an openly gay woman as mayor in 2009 [1]. The current mayor is African-American [2].

Obviously, looking at mayoral demographics is a pretty crude way of judging a city's tolerance, but it is better than extrapolating from news reports, which can hardly give a detailed picture of a region that encompasses a dozen or so states.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annise_Parker [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Turner

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Re:The era of cheap suburban growth and development is over by Arizhel on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @03:19PM (#14259121)
To be fair, Texas isn't really part of the "Deep South", and isn't really known to be as backwards and racist as places like MS, AL, etc.
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Re:The era of cheap suburban growth and development is over by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @03:20PM (#14259135)
> Texas isn't really part of the "Deep South"

I dunno, it seceded to protect slavery from twice as many countries as any other state in the South; that's got to count for something.

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Re:The era of cheap suburban growth and development is over by Arizhel on Thursday May 04, 2017 @11:25AM (#14265502)
Tennessee seceded in the Civil War too but it's not part of the Deep South either. I think Arkansas did too, and that's definitely not part of the "South" at all. Same goes for Missouri.
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