Which are American cities in a respective region that are heavily influenced by another culture of another different region?

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1. Because San Francisco is so much older as a “major city” than anything else West of the Mississippi, it has a much more Northeastern urban design but also immigration pattern than other areas of California or the West Coast. Particularly when it comes to European-Americans.

   Los Angeles and San Diego, for example, has a white population that’s largely Anglo-Saxon in a way that closely matches America’s white population more broadly. The Dust Bowl was a big driver of population growth in those areas so Midwestern culture has a big influence.

   San Francisco’s historic white population is overwhelmingly Irish, German, and Italian, with Anglo-Saxon a less prominent contingent than any of those three. And this lineage of San Francisco residents basically skipped over the Midwest completely, arriving in the late 1800s from New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc…

2. Not a city but a lot of the people Ik from the upper Midwest have very Canadian traits and accents

3. Louisiana isn’t exactly a different region but there is a huge Louisiana influence here in Houston because Hurricane Katrina displaced so many people.

4. The Central Valley is definitely heavily influenced by Dust Bowl migration, although they are just one of many groups that have come here (many of the other groups came from other countries.)

5. One that comes to mind is the cowboy attire tourists like to wear to Nashville despite it not really being a thing for locals.

6. Miami, perhaps. It is often called the “capital of Latin America”, with immigrants from all over the region, as well as their cultural influence. The city also has a Spanish-speaking plurality as a result (possibly even majority).

7. Stamford, New Haven, Danbury, and Bridgeport.

   They’re all technically in New England and while the culture difference between New York and New England isn’t some huge thing, these cities and all of the towns in that part of Connecticut are all definitely more in the New York orbit over the New England one.

8. Florida is a place where you can find this with all these different towns with lots of retirees from specific regions. Southwest Florida seems to be a lot of Midwestern influence whereas Southeast Florida has a lot of NYC, NJ and New England influence.

9. Saint Paul, Minnesota is directly influenced by its Irish / German / French / Norwegian / Swedish settlers, and has a more East Coast or European feel.

   For example, our streets kinda go in all directions, don’t follow any discernible scheme for naming, intersect multiple other streets at the same corner (7 corners), and will abruptly dead end to be picked up somewhere far on the other side of town.

   Unlike those Godless heathens in Minneapolis whose streets are for some reason numbered or lettered based on proximity to downtown, and confusingly travel East to West, or North to South. Weirdos!

10. My home state of FL has several regions like this, South Florida/Miami-Dade County are heavily influenced by Latin American and Caribbean immigration. While the west coast of FL and some east coast retirement communities are heavily influenced by retirees from New York and the Midwest.

11. Well through colonialism, NYC was heavily influenced by the Dutch and the British. Then there was the first wave of from places like Ireland and Germany, then there was the second wave with more immigrants from Italy and Eastern Europe. You also had the great migration, and as far as I know most black people on the East Coast at that time came from Georgia and the Carolinas. These days, you’ll find a lot of Caribbean (Dominican, Puerto Rican, Jamaican, Trinidadian, Guyanese, Haitian, and Bajan) influence, and especially Chinese influence.

12. Baltimore Maryland is great example. The city is considered the northern most southern city and the southern most northern city. Baltimore is faster paced than your typical southern city while being slower than NY. Plus, with lots of northerners moving to Baltimore it has a lot of northern culture that brings different cuisines etc. For example, Wegmans which is a major northern staple of a supermarket is now in Baltimore.

13. Cincinnati has a strong southern influence.

    Austin is a mix of the South and the West Coast.

    Cleveland and Buffalo feel 50% Northeastern and 50% Midwestern. Pittsburgh is similar yet also Appalachian.

    South Florida (especially Broward and Palm Beach county as well as parts of Miami) is like a tropical version of New York/New Jersey.

14. Leavenworth Washington. Extremely Germanic.

15. Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Va. it is home to military active duty, retirees and their spouses &
    from all over the world, plus defense contractors from all over. After 45 years here, I’ve met precious few natives. There really isn’t a single culture except that most people try to be polite and get along with each other.

16. Maybe not heavily influenced but I would say that the Wasatch Front in Utah and San Diego have much more of a Hawaiian presence than anywhere else in the US.

17. San Diego is heavily influenced by southeast Asians (in some areas even more than they are by Mexico). Many moved to the area following the Fall of Saigon. It’s not out of place to see billboards or ads at bus stops, etc, just in Korean or Vietnamese or another Asian language. Some of the bigger supermarkets are Vietnamese, some monolingual churches in just an Asian language, etc.

18. Soulvang is heavily influenced by the Danes. In the early 1900’s, a group of purchased part of a ranch, with the intentions of spreading Danish culture.

19. El Paso is just East New Mexico

20. There’s few that aren’t. Generally speaking, there’s few “quintessential” cities for a region. They’ll usually extort a slight cultural difference to help differentiate from the crowd. Cincinnati, for example will exploit its position near the the Appalachians and Midwest farms to blend a more unique position. Birmingham is more in line with the Rust Belt in terms of build layout, industries and building stock than the rest of the South due to how it was built. (For example, Bham’s suburbs are older and more like Detroit’s, since, similarly, the initial cause was to escape pollution, not just white flight)