CARTERSVILLE, GA and African American

[veragemini]

Ummmm how can I put this...it is a beautiful area around there, however some of the people up there are not with the times as far as how they treat others of diversity. Now I know this is not true of everyone & I am not trying to say something negative, but you may want to visit first or at least come up with alternatives to Cartersville if at all possible. My best friend is from there & it is not a very diverse area from what I can tell. It is only 20 minutes up 1-75 from where I live, but there is a big difference. I am trying to be delicate as to not offend anyone from C'ville, because it is a great little city & reminds me of my hometown in TN, but they are just a little behind the times on some things. Please no one flame me for this...only my opinion from what I have observed on numerous visits. :-)

[Yeahitsme]

Hmmm! Not diverse.... Cartersville is about about 20% African American and over 10% Hispanic with an increasing number of "other" races in the city. Going to the Cartersville Wal-mart and seeing all kinds of races and cultures is nothing. I've seen women who still covered there faces up, renecks, business men, blacks, and mexicans all in one place. You can't say the place isn't diverse. When the 2010 census comes out the city will be close, if not already, to being half minorities and half white.

[Yeahitsme]

Okay since so many people like to get on here and make uneducated statements about places like Cartersville not being diverse but at the same time will say that a place Kennesaw is. Take a look at this:

Races in Kennesaw:

White Non-Hispanic (79.0%)
Black (9.9%)
Hispanic (6.2%)
Other race (2.5%)
Two or more races (2.4%)
Asian Indian (0.7%)
American Indian (0.7%)
Korean (0.6%)

Races in Cartersville:

White Non-Hispanic (73.8%)
Black (17.0%)
Hispanic (7.3%)
Other race (3.8%)
Two or more races (1.5%)
American Indian (0.6%)

These numbers are from 2000 and the number of minorities in Cartersville has gone up a lot so people please stop with all of these uneducated "facts" about Cartersville and how it is so conservative and full of nothing but white people who don't like anybody but other white people!

Now if you want to say it isn't diverse when compared to Marietta or parts of Gwinnett then fine but I've seen so many on here say that Cartersville wasn't compared to Kennesaw!

[afonega1]

Originally Posted by larryb

I hear people talk about "racism" like that is the lowest of all "crimes". What about all the drugs, prostitution, gangbangers that are well known and prevalent in Dekalb, Gwinnett and God forbid you move to Fulton Co. Watch the news and you'll see how much crime is in these counties. Oh and I experienced racism galore in Dekalb. Hey, Cartersville is a nice place to rear your kids. They are going to be picked on and harrassed no matter where you are. You dont think that if they were in an urban school close to Atl that their wouldnt be problems? I grew up in Gary, Indiana amd I will tell you the whites in the mountain areas of north Ga are polite, nice and like their neighborhoods clean and quiet. Do that, and your golden. Be obnoxious, loud, disrupting and yes you will feel uncomfortable. Its not about color, it is culture. I miss eating a Chicago style pizza and a Portillo's hot dog. What suburb are you from?

Oh by the way, AA from Chicago are different from AA in Atlanta.

You are absolutely right.Cartersville is BUSH country!!Cartersville is not a bad place but its not like people who choose raise their kids in Dekalb,Fulton,Gwinnett are worse off either.Those places as you mentioned ,has there problems like many places that have large populations.The fact that you get most of your facts from the news as the whole truth is probably the type of people she wants to avoid.You are right racism is not the problem only concern,but when you put a kid in an environment of intolerance and hatred and it is the NORM for the average person to accept it in that community,then is that an acceptable trade off?I believe Matthew Shephard lived in a quiet small town with good schools and low crime.At least in the places where there is noted crime you can steer clear for the most part,but when racism and intolerance is a part of the de facto part of the community,there is no way to fight that because people are comfortable with being ignorant,intolerant and mostly hypocritical.I Have seen more hate come out of people with "so called down home christian values" be the most hateful sinful people professing to be more moral than those in the "sodom and gommorah of large gangbangin,prostitution and drug using in Dekalb,Fulton, or Gwinnett.It is an insult to be people who raise well adjusted,knowledgeable,worldly kids in nice schools and nice neighborhoods.To use blanket statements show the type of narrow mindedness that comes with mainly living in a town like Cartersville.Cartersville is the type of place that if you step out the box of what everyone is doing you will get ostracized.To answer her question though,i would recommend Gwinnett County,Marietta,Cobb County,Fairburn in South Fulton.Fayette County.Those places are cl in the burbs but no big racial problems and home prices are somewhat reasonable.There is less rampant ultra christian conservatism.

[afonega1]

Originally Posted by veragemini

Ummmm how can I put this...it is a beautiful area around there, however some of the people up there are not with the times as far as how they treat others of diversity. Now I know this is not true of everyone & I am not trying to say something negative, but you may want to visit first or at least come up with alternatives to Cartersville if at all possible. My best friend is from there & it is not a very diverse area from what I can tell. It is only 20 minutes up 1-75 from where I live, but there is a big difference. I am trying to be delicate as to not offend anyone from C'ville, because it is a great little city & reminds me of my hometown in TN, but they are just a little behind the times on some things. Please no one flame me for this...only my opinion from what I have observed on numerous visits. :-)

I agree totally with you.Those are my experiences with C'ville as well.Nice enough to visit,but to live..noway.In a few years yes it will be better,but now,no!

[Ga Cowboy]

The job market in NWGA is awesome. We have Toyo Tires (I work there) Pirelli Tires, Suzuki, Honda, F&P, (all Japanese) and many other large industrial manufacturers. And like another poster said, the houses are going up, create construction jobs, which support resturants and so on!!

I live outside of Rome (20 min away) and love it. More Law Enforcement per capita than any other city in GA (last time I checked) which is great if you plan on obeying the law. We have 2 Wally Supercenters, Sams Club and several McD's, Arby's (each end of town).

Silver Creek (exact address) is 10 min from Rome, 10 min from Rockmart, 25 min from Cartersville, 25 min from Calhoun, 1 hour from Chattanooga, and 10 min from Alabama! Plenty of Mountians and Rivers, Minor league Braves, (Family of 4 for under $55, including food) I moved here from OK, and would not go back.....willingly!

[MommiePreMed]

Originally Posted by veragemini

Ummmm how can I put this...it is a beautiful area around there, however some of the people up there are not with the times as far as how they treat others of diversity. Now I know this is not true of everyone & I am not trying to say something negative, but you may want to visit first or at least come up with alternatives to Cartersville if at all possible. My best friend is from there & it is not a very diverse area from what I can tell. It is only 20 minutes up 1-75 from where I live, but there is a big difference. I am trying to be delicate as to not offend anyone from C'ville, because it is a great little city & reminds me of my hometown in TN, but they are just a little behind the times on some things. Please no one flame me for this...only my opinion from what I have observed on numerous visits. :-)

Just because a city is not diverse does not mean that the residents are backwards rural racial hicks.

I lived in Cartersville for a few year and I loved the area. At the time we moved I had a choice between Rome, where I worked and Cartersville. I chose Cartersville because there was a Target and a Publlix.

Catersville was at the time 8% black, I hardly ever felt out of place or ostracized because I was of a minority race. Racist people live everywhere, even in thriving urban cities.