That’s a blessing; count yourself lucky.
Some folks are always alone, no matter how many people they may be connected to…
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Is too. When judge Roy Bean presides.
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Nah, Judge Bean would have just shot both of them on the spot for ruining his movie.
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I’ve lived in Savannah, it’s a beautiful place that has plenty of arts and culture for a city of its size. Just don’t go too far from the city center if you don’t want to encounter all the ugly stuff people associate with the Deep South.
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What’s with that southwest section (below Columbus) not connected to any city? And why is Augusta so dominant that its influence stretches out significantly into the state?
These are the types of areas we need for the future of the country: progressive despite not being in any way urban.
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Heck if I know. I was too scared to leave the city center. 
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Once on a trip with my daughter’s school down the GA coast, I had several kids in my car, and I stopped to get gas, let the kids go the the restroom, buy a drink, etc. I was talking to the cashier, I paid, stepped back and saw racist porcelain figures on the shelf, and the kid that was in the car who was black was standing with me and saw it. If I had seen it prior to gassing up, I would have gone elsewhere. All I could do was apologize to the poor kid. It was horrible.
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Augusta is the biggest city in that area and has a large African American community. It’s the second largest metro area in the state.
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Thanks, but do you see what I mean? The shape and placement of the blue districts don’t make sense to me. Unless…are you saying that Augusta and Columbus have exceeding large metro areas, both reaching into the state because they’re on borders, and what I’m seeing is racial segregation by district? Georgia is a large enough state, and I’ve driven through it enough times, so it seems to me that those areas are too distant from the city center to be commuter pathways…or are they?
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I think they are becoming so - people are commuting more often now longer distances. Augusta is out East of where I live, and I’d suspect that lots of people might drive to Atlanta for work and live in Augusta, crazy as that seems (plenty of people live north of the city and commute in, with the traffic there making it about the same driving time, I’d bet, despite being closer geographically). I know of at least a couple of folks who commute up from Macon, which is a similar distance from Atlanta to Augusta.
Plus, regional cities like Augusta and Columbus are having to compete for residents with Atlanta, so I suspect they are doing all they can to attract not only business, but people, too. People are probably also spreading out from those specific city centers, much as they are here in Atlanta, where people are moving out to more rural areas to live, and then driving into town for work.
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Wow, that seems like a lot of commute time without the justification of insane real estate costs (such as in the Bay Area and NYC). That really surprises me.
Thanks! I’m really amazed at this info. Now I wonder how many other states have sizeable non-city blue areas.
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Maybe she was texting her friend about his failed attempt at the “popcorn tub with the hole in it trick”
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There’s one in Ohio: Athens County. Athens, Ohio is the home of Ohio University.
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[quote=“LearnedCoward, post:85, topic:101141, full:true”]You don’t see the residents of Austin having the potential to function properly in the rest of the state?
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That was an after-bedtime post, so I should clarify…the potential to function as residents of the more rural parts of the state. My mind’s eye pictures something along the lines of Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie in Arkansas.
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I dunno, but
- Texting indoors is not equivalent to speeding, which is against the law.
- A date is not a contract.
- Idiocy is actually a social norm.
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It could also be that Georgia has a large African American population outside the city centers, unlike most Northern states.
It’s sad when one can tell where the black people live by looking at an election map.
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A good number of people that work in Austin live out in rural areas 
a good number of my coworkers seem to at least.
This makes sense to me. Racism, economics (based on racism), staying near family (who are still out in less-developed areas because racism)…the Great Migration was specifically TO cities for work, but where they came from wasn’t the major Southern cities as much as small towns and rural areas.
It’s so odd for a Northerner like me to see Republican strongholds in large cities and Democratic districts well outside of them (other than college towns, as @marence pointed out) . Take a look at a Chicago or Detroit map, for contrast!
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Yes, but haven’t places like Round Rock and San Marcos - heck, the whole corridor between Austin and San Antonio - been considered “the suburbs” for many years now?
Many friends of mine have had to abandon Austin proper for surrounding towns because of the California/New York gentrification.
Athens Ohio is nice.
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