In Georgia, two Trumps exist across urban, rural divide

The Aiken Standard ^ | January 16, 2017 | Bill Barrow, The Associated Press

[2ndDivisionVet]

LULA, Ga. — Patti Thomas owns a flower shop in the north Georgia town of Lula. Xavier Bryant runs an independent pharmacy just outside Atlanta. Looking toward the inauguration of an entrepreneur as president, the two share this expectation: Donald Trump will be good for business.

"He's already proven he can turn things around," the 52-year-old Thomas said, crediting Trump with Ford Motor Co.'s recent announcement that it would scrap a planned Mexico plant while expanding in Michigan. "Just his business enthusiasm, we've been lacking that."

"My intuition," the 33-year-old Bryant agrees, "is telling me that small business owners will win" in Trump's economy.

But beyond that commonality, Thomas and Bryant – a white baby boomer from a tiny town and a black millennial from the big city – illuminate widening cultural fissures that help explain Trump's rise and may well define his presidency....

[Trump20162020]

More like the typical racial divide between blacks in Fulton/Dekalb, and whites in most of the rest of the state.

[Nifster]

Shhhhh....don’t tell Johm Lewis or Kasim Reed

[Gay State Conservative]

I've lived my entire life (except for Army time) within a 15 mile radius of the Massachusetts State House (in Boston).But philosophically,and in other ways as well,I feel a stronger kinship to the typical resident of suburban Indianapolis than those of my own home town...or of New York/Philly/Baltimore/DC/Chicago/Seattle/San Francisco/LA