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<blockquote data-quote="Old South Stands" data-source="post: 72726" data-attributes="member: 1036"><p>I was born and raised in Atlanta and experienced (and once felt) a lot of this inferiority complex with regards to being from Georgia... I thought it was just me, but maybe the culture's part of it. Don't know whether the overall mood came from "losing the war" and the city being burned to the ground. It seemed like Atlanta was always trying to be the best at something -- whatever that something might be -- or to be something it's not. Many years ago I joked to a fellow Tech student that Atlanta would import sand and build a large wave pool right in the middle of the city just to lay claim to having the "best beach in the world". Not long after that, ironically, Atlanta is suddenly trying to get the Olympics to come to town, an incredibly audacious move at the time. I remember when Smokey and the Bandit came out in theaters, how proud I was as a kid that Atlanta was the setting for a movie and that people all over the country would see it, as silly as it now seems. Then a few years later we have the largest airport in the world. It seems incongruous having the world's largest aquarium right there by the Omni Hotel... Yet it's a fantastic aquarium; I've seen the one at Motnerey, CA, once the world's largest and also an active research facility, and the Atlanta aquarium compares favorably. It's a lot better aquarium than the one we have here in Charleston. Still, it seems out of place, like a lot of what you find in Atlanta. </p><p></p><p>If Atlanta had this built-in inferiority complex -- losing sports teams and all -- I can't imagine what must go on in the more rural parts. It may explain some of the bad behavior UGA fans directed towards Tech people in the wake of their '80 championship. The early 80's was a terrible time to be a Tech fan in high school, especially if your HS mascot happened to be the Bulldogs (or the principal and one of your coaches played for UGA!). The hazing and teasing I got for wearing a Tech jersey to football practice or in the school halls was intense and in-your-face... Rarely have I seen anyone win with less grace than UGA fans in the immediate aftermath of '80. Even as recently as the '90s a good friend from Tech went to a game in Athens and had to run the gauntlet of drunk and disorderlies trying to pick a fight with him on his way out of the stadium and back to the parking lot. UGA won that game; don't know what they would have done to him had they lost! A couple days ago a South Carolina paper warned Clemson fans not to tease UGA fans inordinately, to be respectful while in Athens.</p><p></p><p>The prevailing culture here in South Carolina is vastly different, especially in Charleston. South Carolina ranks at the bottom of many national categories, from education to unemployment and standard of living, yet it doesn't seem to bother a lot of people. There's not much of an inferiority complex here, except perhaps among the Ohio arrivals. People generally like who they are and are comfortable with their history and traditions. They like their dialects (gullah, geechie, etc.) and cuisine. The love South Carolinians have for their state is rivaled only by perhaps Texas. Georgia seems much more fragmented than SC.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old South Stands, post: 72726, member: 1036"] I was born and raised in Atlanta and experienced (and once felt) a lot of this inferiority complex with regards to being from Georgia... I thought it was just me, but maybe the culture's part of it. Don't know whether the overall mood came from "losing the war" and the city being burned to the ground. It seemed like Atlanta was always trying to be the best at something -- whatever that something might be -- or to be something it's not. Many years ago I joked to a fellow Tech student that Atlanta would import sand and build a large wave pool right in the middle of the city just to lay claim to having the "best beach in the world". Not long after that, ironically, Atlanta is suddenly trying to get the Olympics to come to town, an incredibly audacious move at the time. I remember when Smokey and the Bandit came out in theaters, how proud I was as a kid that Atlanta was the setting for a movie and that people all over the country would see it, as silly as it now seems. Then a few years later we have the largest airport in the world. It seems incongruous having the world's largest aquarium right there by the Omni Hotel... Yet it's a fantastic aquarium; I've seen the one at Motnerey, CA, once the world's largest and also an active research facility, and the Atlanta aquarium compares favorably. It's a lot better aquarium than the one we have here in Charleston. Still, it seems out of place, like a lot of what you find in Atlanta. If Atlanta had this built-in inferiority complex -- losing sports teams and all -- I can't imagine what must go on in the more rural parts. It may explain some of the bad behavior UGA fans directed towards Tech people in the wake of their '80 championship. The early 80's was a terrible time to be a Tech fan in high school, especially if your HS mascot happened to be the Bulldogs (or the principal and one of your coaches played for UGA!). The hazing and teasing I got for wearing a Tech jersey to football practice or in the school halls was intense and in-your-face... Rarely have I seen anyone win with less grace than UGA fans in the immediate aftermath of '80. Even as recently as the '90s a good friend from Tech went to a game in Athens and had to run the gauntlet of drunk and disorderlies trying to pick a fight with him on his way out of the stadium and back to the parking lot. UGA won that game; don't know what they would have done to him had they lost! A couple days ago a South Carolina paper warned Clemson fans not to tease UGA fans inordinately, to be respectful while in Athens. The prevailing culture here in South Carolina is vastly different, especially in Charleston. South Carolina ranks at the bottom of many national categories, from education to unemployment and standard of living, yet it doesn't seem to bother a lot of people. There's not much of an inferiority complex here, except perhaps among the Ohio arrivals. People generally like who they are and are comfortable with their history and traditions. They like their dialects (gullah, geechie, etc.) and cuisine. The love South Carolinians have for their state is rivaled only by perhaps Texas. Georgia seems much more fragmented than SC. [/QUOTE]
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