What are Atlanta's "granola" enclaves? (Alpharetta, Dunwoody: to buy, movies)

[arjay57]

I would be careful about reading too much into where somebody lives. You might drive through some place thinking, "Oh, what a cute intown neighborhood, I bet all these people are very hip and liberal." Yet when they go in the voting booth and are behind closed doors, bam! A bunch of them are liable to vote for Sarah Palin. She and McCain pulled in around 40% of the vote in places like Virginia Highland and Ansley Park, for instance.

While Atlanta is progressive in many ways, we are still the heart of Dixie.

[ATLTJL]

Amen. I was in VaHi just yesterday and a lot of the people I saw walking around looked like George W. supporters.

Which makes sense. You don''t afford a $500k house by voting for a lot of extra taxes!

Conversely, driving around Duluth/Johns Creek, I see plenty of Obama stickers. You just never, ever know.

[arjay57]

I guess that's what makes America great. We can argue up one side and down the other but in the end we all still respect one another.

By the way I didn't mean to imply that Sarah Palin's fans can't be hip too.

[robertpolyglot]

Originally Posted by aries4118

Yessir. Near Stone Mountain:

Pine Lake, Georgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thank you. One of those tucked away gems. I think I remember seeing it on the map near Redan Road, or somewhere east of 285, but never made time to go look at it.

[bryantm3]

is this "granola" thing some gen-x term i'm not aware of?

[robertpolyglot]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

is this "granola" thing some gen-x term i'm not aware of?

Possibly so. Does hippy-dippy help? First aware of it in the early 80s to describe some (coastal) communities in Northern California and Berkeley CA. From the 90s on, it was nationwide, and used to describe places like Madison WI and Asheville NC.

[bryantm3]

Originally Posted by robertpolyglot

Possibly so. Does hippy-dippy help? First aware of it in the early 80s to describe some (coastal) communities in Northern California and Berkeley CA. From the 90s on, it was nationwide, and used to describe places like Madison WI and Asheville NC.

yeah sounds like a generational gap thing. my parents are baby boomers and i'm whatever you kids in their 20s now— nobody that i know (parents, friends of parents or folks my age) says that.

[waronxmas]

Originally Posted by arjay57

I would be careful about reading too much into where somebody lives. You might drive through some place thinking, "Oh, what a cute intown neighborhood, I bet all these people are very hip and liberal." Yet when they go in the voting booth and are behind closed doors, bam! A bunch of them are liable to vote for Sarah Palin. She and McCain pulled in around 40% of the vote in places like Virginia Highland and Ansley Park, for instance.

While Atlanta is progressive in many ways, we are still the heart of Dixie.

This can be said of any city though North, South, East, West. Conservatives can easily be found in New York City just as liberals can be found in the heart of a Mississippi swamp. Hell, New York City is one of the most conservative cities out there. I mean hello, they haven't had a Democratic mayor since 1993.

I do agree with your assessment though. It's part of the problem we have today (well for a while now) with politics in this country. We try to assign all of these irrelevant items to voting and political stances. Just because someone owns nothing but Apple products, lives ITP, and has a breakdown the minute they go OTP doesn't preclude them from being a fervent Tea Party member (I actually know at least three people like this).

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by robertpolyglot

Does hippy-dippy help?

That makes me think of Al Sleet, George Carlin's hippy-dippy weatherman back in the 60s.


George Carlin 'The Hippy Dippy Weatherman' - YouTube

[cqholt]

East Atlanta, Edgewood, Kirkwood has a good "granola" population, but all is beat by Decatur.