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Anonymous asked: when u said that chicago has lost almost all its cultural power since the 1980s sure but u also said houston, not 2 b 2 mean but honestly did houston have like literally any cultural power in the 1980s? its just known for being king of energy finaniancial sector, like what did it have purple drank slow rap
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Nah it had the energy financial sector.

The OPEC embargos and slowdowns spurred a lot of oil production and when that came online in the \u201870s-early \u201880s the area boomed. Increased production in Texas (and Alaska) was part of what took America out of the \u201870s stagflation, and culturally the explosion of new money disrupting an agrarian family farm/feudal ranch culture (food production also booming in the face of international demand) was at least as important as Gordon Gekko-era junk-bond M&A Wall Street in setting the tone for the go-go yuppie \u201cgreed is good\u201d \u201880s.

Out of that you had the hit daytime soap Dallas (OK, maybe less Houston than Texas entire, meanwhile Colorado-set Dynasty was part of the Rocky Mountain Vogue), before the show went off the air you had the era ending in a sort of moral lesson, Texas hit hardest by the S&L collapse. You had the \u201cAmerica\u2019s Team\u201d Dallas Cowboys. Below the radar, \u201880s Texas pioneered MDMA as a recreational drug.

Though I don\u2019t blame you for being surprised, it\u2019s hard to say what legacy that era left. The Rich Texan on the Simpsons? The reboot of Dallas? NFL cheerleaders as skimpily clad sex objects maybe, that really kicked off with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders in the \u201870s

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