[Labyrinthos]

adding to your list > Austin, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Charlotte, Columbia, Memphis, Baton Rouge, Miami (gasp), Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans, Birmingham.....and the many other beautiful, conservative small towns across the South. Perhaps they are not AAA rated "first class" cities, but they surely have first class people!

The combined population of all of those cities is less than half the population of New York City. As you say, they are small towns with first class people. But they are not (except perhaps for Miami), First class cities.

[wardaddy]

Miami is an interesting sprawling city with simmering racial tension....which occasionally explodes LA style.

I moved there from manhattan and spent 6 years there. It is not the South's most livable city but is arguably the prettiest water/beaches in the world to have so many folks living so close.

I'm partial but I think Nashville is the South's most livable city of over 1M.

Of course NYC has the most of everything....NYC tops everyone in art collections and theatre etc. Does that make Chicago second class? Hardly.

PS: The only real South anywhere near Miami anymore is Davie in Broward county.