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<blockquote data-quote="IEEEWreck" data-source="post: 242140" data-attributes="member: 617"><p>I know what you're saying, but I contest the claim of those people to being Georgia. Sure, Atlanta is unique and amazing for a lot of reasons. The city was perfused with leaders in the early days who saw industry and innovation as the only path forward for the South. GT's founding was a part of that. An unequaled economic base of black businesses and wealth grew up in Atlanta. In fact, as integration largely wiped out most black owned businesses (because separate and unequal left them at a severe disadvantage to white businesses) in the South in particular, Atlanta's community survived and continued to thrive. It also attracted a large and active Jewish community. More recently, it has helped attract and solidify a gay community. Little upstarts like Austin and Charlotte started building those things once they realized it was cool to be diverse and tolerant. Their business communities think that in no small part because they work their hardest to be like Atlanta.</p><p></p><p>By way of comparison, New Orleans has a much older cosmopolitanism, but the differences are instructive. New Orleans' cosmopolitanism is a culture first environment. Maybe that has to do with being a trade hub and port from the age of sail, maybe its just being a few hundred years older as a city. But I think the narrative New Orleans likes to spread about itself would note the contributions of constituent populations in terms of food and music. Chicago has some of that, but not nearly as much. Perhaps that has to do with there being less time to mingle working trains than ships? And the contrast only demonstrates how culturally impoverished New York is. But unlike all those places, Atlanta's narrative has an element of past and future. It's not just the nation's first (and arguably still most) politically and economically empowered black community- its the story of how that community is generating new wealth and leading the poor into the middle class. Every part of Atlanta's identity is as much about how they will change this place for the better as where they come from. </p><p></p><p>I think that comes from looking at slavery and plantation farming and seeing an economic and social death and realizing replacing it with industry is the only way forward. That same attitude exists in Macon and Savannah and Augusta. But more to the point, that insight is directly and uniquely Georgian.</p><p></p><p>Atlanta IS Georgia culture. Those other people are just Mississippians and carpet baggers who refuse to assimilate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IEEEWreck, post: 242140, member: 617"] I know what you're saying, but I contest the claim of those people to being Georgia. Sure, Atlanta is unique and amazing for a lot of reasons. The city was perfused with leaders in the early days who saw industry and innovation as the only path forward for the South. GT's founding was a part of that. An unequaled economic base of black businesses and wealth grew up in Atlanta. In fact, as integration largely wiped out most black owned businesses (because separate and unequal left them at a severe disadvantage to white businesses) in the South in particular, Atlanta's community survived and continued to thrive. It also attracted a large and active Jewish community. More recently, it has helped attract and solidify a gay community. Little upstarts like Austin and Charlotte started building those things once they realized it was cool to be diverse and tolerant. Their business communities think that in no small part because they work their hardest to be like Atlanta. By way of comparison, New Orleans has a much older cosmopolitanism, but the differences are instructive. New Orleans' cosmopolitanism is a culture first environment. Maybe that has to do with being a trade hub and port from the age of sail, maybe its just being a few hundred years older as a city. But I think the narrative New Orleans likes to spread about itself would note the contributions of constituent populations in terms of food and music. Chicago has some of that, but not nearly as much. Perhaps that has to do with there being less time to mingle working trains than ships? And the contrast only demonstrates how culturally impoverished New York is. But unlike all those places, Atlanta's narrative has an element of past and future. It's not just the nation's first (and arguably still most) politically and economically empowered black community- its the story of how that community is generating new wealth and leading the poor into the middle class. Every part of Atlanta's identity is as much about how they will change this place for the better as where they come from. I think that comes from looking at slavery and plantation farming and seeing an economic and social death and realizing replacing it with industry is the only way forward. That same attitude exists in Macon and Savannah and Augusta. But more to the point, that insight is directly and uniquely Georgian. Atlanta IS Georgia culture. Those other people are just Mississippians and carpet baggers who refuse to assimilate. [/QUOTE]
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