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living an hour from the GA / SC border you honestly can't tell. the counties of hart (ga) / stephens (ga) and elbert (ga) are really no different than anderson / oconee and abbeville counties across the river.
as i said on another post today atlanta as an urban metro area still retains a lot of southern culture. living half way between atlanta and charlotte i've noticed that atlanta seems to have more home grown folks moving / living there while places like charlotte have more of an external migration from the midwest and up north. with that being said it seems as if atlanta is able to keep itself from becoming yet another safe haven for northern refugees.
greenville, sc (where i live) is leaning more so towards charlotte in terms of its growth.
living an hour from the GA / SC border you honestly can't tell. the counties of hart (ga) / stephens (ga) and elbert (ga) are really no different than anderson / oconee and abbeville counties across the river.
as i said on another post today atlanta as an urban metro area still retains a lot of southern culture. living half way between atlanta and charlotte i've noticed that atlanta seems to have more home grown folks moving / living there while places like charlotte have more of an external migration from the midwest and up north. with that being said it seems as if atlanta is able to keep itself from becoming yet another safe haven for northern refugees.
greenville, sc (where i live) is leaning more so towards charlotte in terms of its growth.
Wow, you're significantly off in terms of who's fueling the growth in metro Atlanta, and what is "home grown folks" supposed to mean anyway?
Between 2000 and 2009, 297,609 people moved from another Georgia county into the Atlanta 20-County area (as defined by the Atlanta Regional Commission).
During that period, the top 10 largest sources of out-of-state domestic net migration were New York (60,247), Florida (55,503), California (25,769), New Jersey (22,651), Michigan (15,848), Illinois (14,462), Louisiana (13,499), Ohio (11,224), Massachusetts (8,808) and Alabama (8,456) for a total of 339,472 migrants.
That's 27.01% for the Northeast, 22.81% for the Southeast, 7.97% for the Midwest and 7.59% for the West.
Do you really think that Atlanta's population could have grown as exponentially as it has within the past couple of decades with NO significant migration from other regions of the country?????
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Originally Posted by Scotty011
Georgia, minus Atlanta Georgia is more culturally southern.
I think Georgia has a much better southern culture than SC. Georgia is strong every type of southern culture. Appalachian, low land, African-American, coastal, and even a new type of southern culture in Atlanta that is embracing other cultures and molding well with the 21st century.
More than half of the population of Georgia lives in the Atlanta Metro, so maybe Georgia minus Atlanta might be as "southern" or "more southern" than SC, but more than half of the Georgia population lives in greater Atlanta...
To further muddy the waters, though, I'd like to argue that there's not just one way to be Southern. Southern cities are still Southern. They just aren't as easily identified with a very narrow stereotype of Southern identity. Southern port cities, especially, have been bastions of diversity of thought and culture since before the US was founded.
I think they're equally Southern. Sure, Atlanta is a major global city and attracts people from all over the world to live and visit, but I would argue that Atlanta is still culturally very Southern.
I think they're equally Southern. Sure, Atlanta is a major global city and attracts people from all over the world to live and visit, but I would argue that Atlanta is still culturally very Southern.
Atlanta is culturally Southern for sure, but in a more cosmopolitan, urbane way which dilutes the stereotypical Southernness a bit. You have more extra-regional cultural influences in play and that makes a difference. That's a noticeable distinction between Atlanta and any SC city and that's why SC is overall more culturally Southern, but it's not by leaps and bounds.
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