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I think people as missing the point of the thread. The point was about these areas incorporating making their own city. It was not about north, south, or central PG county. The name used to describe the area isn't really important and you aren't wrong in saying Largo is not south PG.
How do you think this new city would function? The downtown is already going to Largo although I guess maybe they should call it uptown?
lol lets just rename the thread that area of pg compared to South Fulton. Largo/ Mitchellville to rt301 down to Brandywine and Oxon Hill would be similar to South Fulton going toward Dekalb county.
I’d consider Southern Prince George’s anything south of Pennsylvania Ave/Route4/Suitland Parkway.
North of that and south of 50 is Central Prince George’s.
I agree; it's also a bit more than just the southern half of PG outside the Beltway. I would've also restricted southern PG to south of Pennsylvania Ave. I know MDAllStar was trying to get a similar population number as South Fulton with the specific places he used in PG, but that's also problematic in a county with such wide variance between official jurisdictional boundaries and larger areas like zip codes that are widely known by those place names.
Think? It's an actual city and a not a description for Southwest Atlanta or the Tri-Cities. it's basically everything in South Fulton that wasn't Palmetto, Fairburn, or Union City before.
Ehh
It’s way more nuanced than that. No one but a few overly proud residents call it South Fulton.
Ppl call the Walmart off Cascade by Mays HS South Fulton in conversation. South Fulton and APD cruisers both frequent the area, so the poster is right in a way. It seems very contrived.
It’s way more nuanced than that. No one but a few overly proud residents call it South Fulton.
Ppl call the Walmart off Cascade by Mays HS South Fulton in conversation. South Fulton and APD cruisers both frequent the area, so the poster is right in a way. It seems very contrived.
From what I’ve seen, everyone in South Fulton has adjusted to calling the area after it’s city name. We were saying South Fulton before as a general descriptor anyway so it didn’t really change how we referred to the area (other than ending the use of the vague Atlanta/College Park 30349 debate where both sides were usually wrong and just lived in unincorporated Fulton).
Cool. Give a counter-argument.
I come from Detroit. Several decades of obsession over being a “black city” and racial identity hasn’t exactly helped the city thrive. The separatism and race bias that started in the 70s ruined the city. Half the city is a ghost town as a result.
Southfield is 75 percent black but the residents and leaders never obsessed over race.
As a result, the suburb is thriving.
Detroit’s demise is a cautionary tale of what happens when race takes center stage of city focus. And there is definitely still an element of “I hate white people” there.
I had black colleagues admit to me that I should stay out of certain areas because the racism was too strong.
Tell me where I am wrong.
I think the last paragraph of the article linked on the first page of the thread about South Fulton sums it up succinctly:
“When you look at how Black people are faring in America, we are at the bottom of almost every socioeconomic indicator from housing to healthcare, from education to entrepreneurship and economic development,” he says. “I really do believe that a rising tide lifts all boats and if you can raise the boats at the bottom, the smallest boats, then everyone is going to benefit from that.”
That's the gist of it and while it's expected that some folks will have a visceral reaction to the line "South Fulton Mayor khalid kamau is embracing the city's status as the Blackest city in America through his 'Black On Purpose' mission," I don't think any reasonable person would object to the overarching goal at the heart of the sentiment which is pretty all-inclusive. That's essentially what the CRM was all about anyway.
From what I’ve seen, everyone in South Fulton has adjusted to calling the area after it’s city name. We were saying South Fulton before as a general descriptor anyway so it didn’t really change how we referred to the area (other than ending the use of the vague Atlanta/College Park 30349 debate where both sides were usually wrong and just lived in unincorporated Fulton).
How does South Fulton connect to the city of Atlanta? What is the neighborhood interaction?
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