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Having lived in Georgia and Tennessee and still having family in the Carolinas, you're either a straight white man or living in denial.
by mdorazio 8y ago
Having lived in Georgia and Tennessee and still having family in the Carolinas, you're either a straight white man or living in denial.
- rayiner 8y agoI lived in Atlanta for the better part of a decade as a brown guy right after 9/11. Was great.
- amazingman 8y agoI guess you never spent much time in the hills just an hour or so from Atlanta in almost any direction, in any of a good number of towns where “a brown guy” would have a hard time finding a restaurant willing to take his money for food.
- rayiner 8y agoOne of my college buddies lived in Douglas, three hours south of Atlanta in south georgia. Never had anyone be anything short of incredibly polite and hospitable. Heck, I’ve been in rural Illinois, rural VA, and rural GA quite a bit and everyone’s been great. I don’t know (or much care) about peoples’ politics but I’ve always been treated respectfully.
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- selimthegrim 8y agoAnother brown guy checking in. My aunt and uncle practiced medicine in Murphy, NC for many years and only ever had a problem when the feds thought Eric Rudolph might be hiding in their backyard.
- enraged_camel 8y agoLarge cities are always much more liberal. Don't let that fool you though, the overall culture in the state of Georgia is not much different than it was back during the Civil War era. edit: nice downvotes from Georgians ;)
- mdorazio 8y ago30 miles outside Atlanta things were not so rosy for brown people right after 9/11 when I lived there. And now, 17 years after 9/11, Georgia is doing everything it possibly can to suppress and purge voters who might shift the state away from staunch conservatism [1]. Please don't pretend there aren't massive issues in the south preventing it from being appealing to west coasters. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/us/politics/georgia-governor-voting-irregularities.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/us/politics/georgia-gover...