Category and Sub Category Listings

So I have a directory set up. When someone want’s to add their business to the directory they have to choose a category or sub category for their business. One of the categories I have listed is “Industry Colleagues” and a sub category of that is “Paint Suppliers”. So the problem I have is this. Lets say a company TEXTALL from California signs up for my directory and chooses the sub category of “Industry Colleagues” called “Paint Suppliers”. Once they are published and in the system and I go to do a search and I tell the search to bring up all “Industry Colleagues” from California shouldnt TEXTALL show up in the results because they are listed in a sub category of “Industry Colleagues”? If so How do I do this because it’s not working out this way.

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