I recently read an article related to racism in Atlanta.The author mentions how they thought how living in Atlanta was not the same as living in Georgia.What does that mean?
Edit: here’s the article
I used to think being from Atlanta and from Georgia were different. They’re not.
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A lot of Georgia is rural and conservative. Atlanta isn’t.
Atlanta is a mostly liberal cultural hub whereas the majority of Georgia is very conservative.
Atlanta is a very dense and diverse area. Being a large city, there are some issues, such as housing prices, transportation, and the like that suburban/rural areas don’t have any concern about. This tends to foster a progressive/liberal political majority in the area.
The rest of Georgia is largely rural, with a prominent white/conservative majority, and often a heavy religious aspect
Although over the past century, race has still been a hot topic for a lot of that time across the entire state.
Atlanta is a very diverse city with a lot of transplants from other states/countries. Overwhelmingly votes Democrat while most of the rest of Georgia overwhelmingly votes Republican. Atlanta has the largest population of black gays and lesbians in the US. 18 years ago, 75% of Georgia voters voted to ban gay marriage. Etc.
> I recently read an article related to racism in Atlanta.
It would really help if folks would provide links to articles they say they’ve read. The source and context matter, and we have none of that from you yet.
> The author mentions how they thought how living in Atlanta was not the same as living in Georgia.What does that mean?
Black folks in Atlanta (the city) are the plurality of the population, and were the majority from 1970 to 2010. All of the mayors since ’74 have been black. Atlanta is known as the “Black Mecca,” for music, culture, and business.
The rest of Georgia is less black, but even rural areas have significant black population proportionally, especially south of Atlanta [e.g. Decatur County, the southwestermost county: White 48.63%; Black 41.54%]. Only North Georgia is significantly “white” to the point of there being signicantly fewer black folks there [e.g. Rabun County, the northeasternmost county: White 86.63%; Black 0.63%].
Atlanta is *the city* of the south. It’s a huge economic and cultural hub for the region. As such (like others have pointed out), it tends to be more liberal and diverse than the rest of Georgia. As the saying goes, “Without Atlanta, Georgia is just Alabama”.
I’ll take things that didn’t happen for 500 Alex.
A lot more urban with people who have… re-vitiligo
Atlanta is very different… it’s a BIG, urban metro area, with a large prosperous African-American community, attracts lots of other minorities, immigrants, LGBTQ+, educated elites, Northern transplants who relocated for jobs, etc. so Atlanta is much more liberal, wealthy, and diverse than the rest of the state. Most of the rest of the state is pretty rural, pretty poor, conservative in the white areas (other than some small pockets like Savannah, Athens).
Atlanta aint nothing like Georgia
Atlanta is a city where the majority of Georgia lives and the rest is more rural. Traditional rural-urban divisions arise.
There’s less racial segregation in the rest of the state lmao, it’s also a lot more conservative although atlanta is fairly conservative by urban standards, honestly Atlanta isn’t radically different from the rest of the state the way it is with a lot of cities (i.e. NYC vs NY State, Portland vs the rest of Oregon etc).
The real difference is North GA (the Appalachian part) vs the rest of Georgia, North Georgia is very very conservative, pretty homogeneously white, and I have also heard more complaints about racism from there than I have anywhere else in Georgia. The rest of the state, even most rural parts are still fairly mixed, and there’s also a lot of rural counties that go blue due to large black populations.