Posted on 03/10/2013 5:07:48 PM PDT by wesagain
I think the states bailed out will by NY, CA, and IL.
Those are the "blue base" of electoral votes.
Likely before the next POTUS election you'll see a federal guarantee for their state bonds.
Racist blacks are reaping
what they have sown.
Segregated plantation hell holes.
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I thought that with the rise of video conferencing and IT advancements, we would no longer need to import workers from foreign lands. We see how that’s worked out.
Dem bureaucrats/regulators along with liberal lawyers and judges can get VERY creative in their ‘remedies’ to ‘problems’.
Oh no!!! We used to live in Marietta 20 some years ago, but due to job opportunities, we relocated to the Midwest. Now job opportunities may bring us back to the greater Atlanta area.
Does anyone here know how things are going in the suburbs south of Atlanta, specifically Jonesboro and Stockbridge areas?
Jonesboro/Clayton County is THE most Democrat county in the state of Georgia. Voted 85% for Zero. It’s more Black and Dem than Atlanta. (In 2000, it was voting 30% GOP, and in ‘12 slipped below 15%, so the “producers” are voting with their feet).
Stockbridge/Henry County is still slightly GOP leaning (just 51%), but because it neighbors Clayton, the Democrat voters are flooding over and will probably be narrowly Dem by 2016. In 2000, it was voting 67% GOP.
A more fundamental question, is in this day and age, do we still need cities? Can we essentially have spread out areas of medium-sized communities, without the need for a mega-sized hub city? Maybe in the past it made sense, but with technological advances, that old model has become obsolete.
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Good observation. ...Just consider the DFW Metroplex which consists of all or part of five counties, has major cities of Dallas, Ft. Worth and Denton, plus dozens (or hundreds) of other incorporated cities/towns. The light rail system continues to expand and the area is rife with freeways. Dallas is the only one of those cities that’s in danger of becoming another Atlanta because of its liberal politics and minorities majority in the populace.
What happened to the “Hotlanta” of the 70s? *snicker*
Thanks for the info. Where we are now, it is slightly more D than R, but close to 50/50. We will proceed with caution before settling on an area to live in, thanks to your input.
more recently wasn’t there a scandal because several Atlanta teachers fixed kids’ standardized tests?
Clayton County (Jonesboro), believe it or not, was heavily Republican even until the late 1980s. Voted 65% for Bush, Sr. in 1988. Even DeKalb (Eastside Atlanta), which was sending a Republican to Congress in the ‘60s and early ‘70s, was evenly divided (50%-49% for Dukakis). Flash forward to today and it’s all changed for the worst. They send loonies and imbeciles to Congress like Cynthia McKinney and Hank Johnson.
BTW, it’s not all a racial thing. A lot of useful idiot liberal Whites cast their lot for these same clowns.
I’d imagine if you had to relocate to the Atlanta area, best to stick to the northside. The counties to the south and east have gone to the dark side.
Fulton County got its "dumbbell" shape when it absorbed two bankrupt counties back in the 1930s:
- North Fulton County was once Milton County, seated in the little nowhere town of Alpharetta; back then, Milton High School was Milton County High School.
- South Fulton County used to be Campbell County, seated in Fairburn, and Campbell County High School became Campbell of Fairburn High (long since closed and purchased by Landmark Christian School).
Both counties were poor farming communities with tax bases that were not sufficient to survive the Depression. Fulton County looks like three counties because it actually is.
Now the tables have turned.
It probably won't be long before Georgia's GOP-dominated legislature allows North Fulton to incorporate once again as Milton County. North Fulton's taxpayers are tired of being elected as "cash cows" for Atlanta's more numerous takers. The recently incorporated cities of Milton and Johns Creek are probably just the first steps in the process of liberation from Atlanta's elected looters.
South Fulton is years behind North Fulton and includes a significant Black population in its northern fringe. But the bulk of South Fulton is still semi-rural, not suburban, and contains a lot of successful, independent-minded producers and a lot of nice horses. The recent incorporation of wealthy Chattahoochee Hills mirrors those of Milton and Johns Creek in North Fulton. Another reason to keep your eye on South Fulton's future is that large parts of it are owned by old money Atlantans who might want to retreat there one day - and not just on weekends. No other place is so empty and yet so close to Atlanta.
Smart people with a grip on history are watching and wondering...
- DeKalb County had THE BEST school system in Georgia back in the 1970s, but has recently been threatened with loss of accreditation as its edumacated-but-illiterate socialist dumbasses have run it into the ground since chasing the white majority eastward to Gwinnett County.
- Clayton County was majority white with an excellent school system in the 1970s; recently its accreditation was revoked, and now Clayton is a basket-case hellhole known as "Compton East" among hip hop thugs.
- Now the black tide is sweeping further south into Fayette County, where a very prosperous community and the state's current number one school district are under siege from Blacks who want a better life but are bringing their bad, nest-fouling habits with them.
It's a helluva mess.
“Should’ve picked our own damned cotton.”
It was helped by the likes of the AJC, the black politicians, liberal media and minorities.
In truth, it has been a corruption since its first black mayor (jackson) was elected in the early 70s. Atlanta’s politicians use the government and taxes as their own little stash. The airport is owned by Atlanta, and each mayor has made millions off each sales concession there since the 70s.
The water system has lines that are way over a hundred years old, they raised rates, but they aren’t replacing them. They don’t even keep the lights on at night on the major interstates and perimeter any more (those that fall in Atlanta.
Corrupt to the bone. And only one Mayor ever went to prison.
In 82 Atlanta was named the top city in the country. I remember having a job offer there, but not a partnership offer that I received from the Boston area. I reemember Atlanta as a nice clean bustling city.
Is there a black majority run city anywhere that is successful? In the US? In the world?
If I recall correctly South Fulton was taxed for something like fourty years for a water / sewer project that was never installed. A group of landowners sued to try and let South Fulton leave Fulton County and join Coweta. The demographics of South Fulton have drastically changed in the last ten years.
That’s the whole point...
The “social contract” is only beneficial to those who use the guns of government to parasitize those who are productive.
This “contract” is either voluntary, or it is slavery.
As the “checkpoint rebels” say
“am I free to go or are you forcefully detaining me?”
If it’s the latter, we’ll treat the “detainers” as they should be treated.
Seems like when the intown housing projects were razed in the mid-90’s, the occupants largely ended up in Clayton & S Fulton county.
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