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Old 12-11-2012, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by RoslynHolcomb View Post
Have you noticed that most of that stuff happened more than twenty years ago? Some of it fifty years ago! Yes, there was a time when Atlanta was progressive, at least for the south. Now, nit so much. I've been frankly surprised at just how regressive the area has become. The inability to expand MARTA. TSPLOST. The situation with the schools and most of all, race, race, OMG, race. Atlanta has gone from being the city too busy to hate to a stalemated quagmire that can't move past its Glory Days. Much as Birmingham is still stuck in the sixties, Atlanta hasn't moved past 1996. Progressive, not so much.
Sorry, but most of this post, and particularly the bold portion is absolutely false, and sounds like the words of someone who rarely leaves the suburbs.
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