Georgia
Georgia is a state in the southern United States. If it weren't for Atlanta...
Atlanta is the spiritual home of sweat tea; Augusta is home to golfers. These two facts need not be reconciled but should instead be duly noted. Still, there must be something good about a place that could inspire Brook Benton's Rainey Night in Georgia. Georgia got soul.
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Long a one-party state under the thumb of white segregationist conservative Democrats, Georgia is today a one-party state under the thumb of white conservative Republicans. Black Georgians are represented by the minority Democratic Party. That's what progress looks like down in the Peachtree State. Progress is also manifested as the substitution of an intolerant religiosity for open racial hate as an appeal to mobilize white voters. To drive home the message, conservative Republicans are even now conspiring to compel all Georgians who drive cars — the entire population that is not incarcerated — with license plates that bear the inscription In God We Trust. The raw coercive might of the state will be used to force everyone to bear the mark of the religious majority.
Briefly, Georgia was home to a carpetbagger from Pennsylvania named Newt Gingrich, who represented the Sixth District and then moved to the Washington, D.C. area. As Aunt Pittypat said, "Yankees! In Georgia! How'd they ever get in?" A surprising number of politicians in Georgia bear the surname Purdue. Perhaps they are related. Several of the state's Republican U.S. Representatives, including Dr. Phil Gingrey and Dr. Paul Broun, have won recognition for their outstanding achievements in derp. Indeed that has made both strong contenders in the Republican Party primary election for the 2014 U.S. Senate nomination.
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Georgia is also home to the only Jewish boarding school in the United States. No one is sure why.
The state is also home to the "Georgia Guidestones," a granite structure that has been the focus of millennial claims by Van Smith and various other conspiracy theorists.
The book Deliverance, later made into the iconic film that launched Burt Reynolds' career[wp], is set in North Georgia. Its specific location is fictional but based on on the Chattooga River, and apart from its iconic exhortation to SQUEAL LIKE A PIG the film's greatest impact was that it immediately turned the river into a whitewater rafting hotspot. North Georgians called its depiction of them appalling and dehumanizing (which is truthfully an extreme understatement), but the book's author, who was from Georgia and quite familiar with the area, maintained that his description was an accurate and faithful representation of the place. The works still serve to scare the living shit out of Appalachian Trail hikers as they walk the Georgian section.[1]
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- Georgia (საქართველო Heh!) is also one of those tiny not-exactly-European-but-noone-knows-what-else-to-call-it
Transcaucasiancountries nobody's ever heard of. It used to be part of the Soviet Union. It's full of people with funny surnames ending in -shvili and -dze. It also has a very strong claim to being the birthplace of wine.
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- ↑ Bryson, Bill (1998). A Walk in the Woods. HarperCollins.
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