History UsefulNotes / GeorgiaUSA

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* '''Macon and the old Heartland'''

* '''Augusta and the South Carolina area'''. Still quite traditionally Southern, probably helped by the close border with fellow Heartland SC. Includes the Savannah River and all of its randomly growing islands. In golf, Augusta is best known as the home of the Masters tournament, one of the four major men's golf championships and the only one among them to be hosted at the same course annually, traditionally held on the first full week of April at the Augusta National Golf Club[[note]]The 1943 to 1945 editions were cancelled due to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and the 2020 edition was held in November without spectators present due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic[[/note]].

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Georgia's economic growth has resulted in a massive expansion of its suburban middle-class in recent decades, as young professionals have flocked to the region to take advantage of its many growing job sectors, ranging from tech and industry to a thriving film industry--in recent years, highly favorable tax incentives have led to the state surpassing ''UsefulNotes/{{California}}'' in terms of total film production, including the films of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and Creator/TylerPerry opened the largest film production studio in the entire United States in Atlanta in 2019. This demographic change in the Atlanta suburbs, coupled with its aforementioned large, Stacey Abrams' Fair Fight Action and a historically strong African-American community, has made Georgia a competitive state in recent elections, with the state barely swinging left for the Democrats in the Presidential and Senate races in 2020-2021 after historically being seen as a fairly Republican state with a solid conservative base since 1972 (with the exceptions of 1976 and 1992 when the state voted for favorite son UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter and UsefulNotes/BillClinton respectively).

Georgia's economic growth has resulted in a massive expansion of its suburban middle-class in recent decades, as young professionals have flocked to the region to take advantage of its many growing job sectors, ranging from tech and industry to a thriving film industry--in recent years, highly favorable tax incentives have led to the state surpassing ''UsefulNotes/{{California}}'' in terms of total film production, including the films of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and Creator/TylerPerry opened the largest film production studio in the entire United States in Atlanta in 2019. This demographic change in the Atlanta metropolitan area, coupled with its aforementioned large and the historically strong African-American community, has made Georgia a competitive state in recent elections, with the state barely swinging left for the Democrats in the Presidential and Senate races in 2020-2021 after historically being seen as a fairly Republican state with a solid conservative base.

Conversely, Athens is host to many break-out alternative rock groups like Music/{{REM}}. Another prominent genre of music in Georgia is {{country|music}} and {{bluegrass}}, and more recently an ArenaRock style of country music from young artists coming from the old Heartland of Central Georgia. This includes acts like Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan. The Music/TaylorSwift song "Tim [=McGraw=]" is also set in Georgia, as she makes mention that the boy said she "put those Georgia stars to shame that night". However, Swift grew up in Pennsylvania and Nashville. Luke Bryan's OdeToYouth "We Rode In Trucks" makes mention of the Flint River, near where he grew up, and "that red Georgia dirt", with Jason Aldean's "Country Boy's World" soliloquising the differences between the urban North East and Rome, Georgia, and how his girlfriend had "never seen a one-light town 'till she moved down here".

Georgia's economic growth has resulted in a massive expansion of its suburban middle-class in recent decades, as young professionals have flocked to the region to take advantage of its many growing job sectors, ranging from tech and industry to a thriving film industry--in recent years, highly favorable tax incentives have led to the state surpassing ''UsefulNotes/{{California}}'' in terms of total film production, including the films of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and Creator/TylerPerry opened the largest film production studio in the entire United States in Atlanta in 2019. This demographic change in the Atlanta metropolitan area, coupled with its aforementioned large and historically-strong African-American community, has made Georgia a competitive state in recent elections, with the state barely swinging left in presidential and senate races in 2020-2021 after historically being seen as a fairly Republican state with a solid conservative base.

Georgia's economic growth has resulted in a massive expansion of its suburban middle-class in recent decades, as young professionals have flocked to the region to take advantage of its many growing job sectors, ranging from tech and industry to a thriving film industry--in recent years, highly favorable tax incentives have led to the state surpassing ''UsefulNotes/{{California}}'' in terms of total film production, including the films of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and Creator/TylerPerry opened the largest film production studio in the entire United States in Atlanta in 2019. This demographic change in the Atlanta metropolitan area, coupled with its aforementioned large and historically-strong African-American community, has made Georgia a competitive state in recent elections, with the state barely swinging left for Joe Biden, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in 2020-2021 after historically being seen as a fairly Republican state with a solid conservative base.

Georgia's economic growth has resulted in a massive expansion of its suburban middle-class in recent decades, as young professionals have flocked to the region to take advantage of its many growing job sectors, ranging from tech and industry to a thriving film industry--in recent years, highly favorable tax incentives have led to the state surpassing ''UsefulNotes/{{California}}'' in terms of total film production, including the films of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and Creator/TylerPerry opened the largest film production studio in the entire United States in Atlanta in 2019. This demographic change, coupled with its aforementioned large and historically-strong African-American community, has made Georgia a competitive state in recent elections, with the state swinging left in 2020 after historically being seen as a fairly solid conservative base.

Things went pretty well for 25 years after that, with Georgian colonists farming, colonizing modern-day Florida and Alabama, and constantly pissing off the native and Spanish occupants. These colonists, early converts to UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, chose to join in [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution that little rebellion thing that happened on July 4th, 1776]]. They signed the Declaration of Independence and ratified their first constitution a year later. It's worth noting that at this point in time, Georgia looked a little different. In fact, it was basically Georgia + Alabama + Mississippi, minus what of the latter two lays below the Florida-Georgia line: this was a major extension of Florida's panhandle. This is a result of how the British claimed land, but that's another story[[note]]They basically named the coastal area that they settled in and then claimed all land within those latitudes as far West as they could before the Spanish and French got all pissy about it. Massachusetts extended into present-day ''Iowa'' for a long time[[/note]].

Close to 100 years after the colony was founded, in 1829, a new development transformed the state: a gold rush. Gold was discovered in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the North of Georgia in 1828, and though it extended across the state the biggest hauls were in Lumpkin county; the gold here was also close to 100% carat clarity. A national mint was set up in Dahlonega, and an influx of miners arrived. This caused a couple of problems, most importantly: who did the gold belong to? The government wanted a claim, the miners obviously wanted a claim, but so did the Cherokee who had lived in that land since the first Spanish expeditions. The government didn't care and even tried to take some of the Cherokee land so that the new white settlers taking advantage of the gold rush could settle. In 1830, mines were built in three more counties and in came more gold-diggers to undertake more mining operations. These excavations were known as the Great Intrusion. In the same year, UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson authorized the Indian Removal Act to forcibly remove thousands of native people.

The Cherokee people were not happy, and they organized to legally protest this injustice. However, even when the Supreme Court finally recognized them as a sovereign nation (letting them retain ownership of ancestral ground), Jackson ignored their ruling and still kicked them out of the gold fields. A Gold Lottery awarded former Cherokee land to miners. Only a few years later, however, the immediate sources dried up and mining diminished. Dahlonega had grown massively, though, and was fully established enough to retain the gold rush migrants. When the UsefulNotes/{{California}} Gold Rush started in the late 1840s, a lot of placer miners moved out to the Sierra Nevada. Mining continued in Northern Georgia until the end of the century.

The population of Georgia at this time was around fifty-fifty White and Black[[note]]Before the gold rush, there was a significantly higher percentage of African-American people[[/note]], but the state remained under a racist white power structure throughout its history, like many of its Southern neighbors. Following the Civil War, many communities of emancipated African-Americans who had once been enslaved on Georgia plantations established thriving middle-class communities, particularly in neighborhoods of Atlanta. However, by the early 20th century, White Georgians had reestablished political hegemony using [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem white primaries]], literacy tests, and Jim Crow laws to block Black Georgians from social and political participation, which contributed to the Great Migration to the North and the Black population dropping significantly. Many Black Georgians did stay in the South, however, and the state became the center of the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement. Atlanta was, notably, the birthplace of UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr, and he started his ministry and activism in Georgia. Today, the state has the third-largest African-American population of any state (behind only Texas and Florida) and the second-largest in terms of percentage (just over a third of the population, behind only Mississippi).

'''Georgia''' is a Southern US state that borders the Carolinas, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}, [[SweetHomeAlabama Alabama]], and UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}}. The eighth-largest state in terms of population, its capital and largest city is UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}. It is the youngest of the original Thirteen Colonies, being founded in 1733 (some of the original colonists were still alive for independence, which couldn't be said of any of the other colonies). Colonial custom also listed it last for geographical reasons (the colonies were usually listed north to south, and Georgia was the southernmost colony). Georgia was also one of the original seven [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Confederate States]]. The northern parts of the state are within the [[UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}} Appalachian Mountains]], and the whole thing, apart from Metro Atlanta, is firmly part of the DeepSouth--many country singers are from middle Georgia.

Georgia's economic growth has resulted in a massive expansion of its suburban middle-class in recent decades, as young professionals have flocked to the region to take advantage of its many growing job sectors, ranging from tech and industry to a thriving film industry--in recent years, highly favorable tax incentives have led to the state surpassing ''UsefulNotes/{{California}}'' in terms of total film production, including the films of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and Creator/TylerPerry opened the largest film production studio in the United States in 2019. This demographic change, coupled with its aforementioned large and historically-strong African-American community, has made Georgia a competitive state in recent elections, with the state swinging left in 2020 after historically being seen as a fairly solid conservative base.

'''Georgia''' is a Southern US state that borders the Carolinas, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}, [[SweetHomeAlabama Alabama]], and UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}}. Its capital and largest city is UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}. It is the youngest of the original Thirteen Colonies, being founded in 1733 (some of the original colonists were still alive for independence, which couldn't be said of any of the other colonies). Colonial custom also listed it last for geographical reasons (the colonies were usually listed north to south, and Georgia was the southernmost colony). Georgia was also one of the original seven [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Confederate States]]. The northern parts of the state are within the [[UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}} Appalachian Mountains]], and the whole thing, apart from Metro Atlanta, is firmly part of the DeepSouth--many country singers are from middle Georgia.

The population of Georgia at this time was around fifty-fifty White and Black[[note]]Before the gold rush, there was a significantly higher percentage of African-American people[[/note]], but the state remained under a racist white power structure throughout its history, like many of its Southern neighbors. Following the Civil War, many communities of emancipated African-Americans who had once been enslaved on Georgia plantations established thriving middle-class communities, particularly in neighborhoods of Atlanta. However, by the early 20th century, White Georgians had reestablished political hegemony using [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem white primaries]], literacy tests, and Jim Crow laws to block Black Georgians from social and political participation, which contributed to the Great Migration to the North and the Black population dropping significantly. Many Black Georgians did stay in the South, however, and the state became the center of the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement. Atlanta was, notably, the birthplace of UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr, and he started his ministry and activism in Georgia

In the late 1960s, Georgia surprisingly became a large hub for the social reform movement within the conservative South, the "New South". It passed bills to promote emerging industry and development, based around Atlanta, as well as civil rights reform. There were no native Cherokee remaining in Georgia after the gold rush, but there has been discussions of ceremonially returning land and welcoming descendants of the displaced peoples into the North of Georgia. The state did pass an amendment to its constitution explicitly barring same-sex marriage in 2004, but all counties annulled this upon the Supreme Court ruling to recognize equal marriage rights in 2015.

Atlanta has a large African-American culture. This includes features on ''The Real Housewives of Atlanta'' like [=NeNe=] Leakes and Kenya Moore. There is also a big hip-hop scene, with artists including Young Jeezy, Kanye West, and Usher. Rap songs like "Yeah!" by Usher ft. Lil Jon and Ludacris mentions the "A-Town", as does Ludacris' own "Welcome to Atlanta". Rapper B.o.B. is from Decatur, a suburb of the city, and references this in songs like "Airplanes" (ft. [[Music/{{Paramore}} Hayley Williams]]). The Outkast album "[=ATLiens=]" is also named after Atlanta.

'''Georgia''' is a Southern US state that borders the Carolinas, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}, [[SweetHomeAlabama Alabama]], and UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}}. Its capital and largest city is UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}. It is the youngest of the original Thirteen Colonies, being founded in 1733 (some of the original colonists were still alive for independence, which couldn't be said of any of the other colonies). Colonial custom also listed it last for geographical reasons (the colonies were usually listed north to south, and Georgia was the southernmost colony). Georgia was also one of the original seven [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Confederate States]]. The northern parts of the state are within the [[UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}} Appalachian Mountains]], and the whole thing, apart from Metro Atlanta, is firmly part of the DeepSouth -- many country singers are from middle Georgia.

Known as both "The Peach State"[[note]]which is used on one variant of the current license plate[[/note]] and the much cooler "Empire State of The South", because one of the state's primary agricultural products is the peach and because much like [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkState the Empire State]] it is very large and varied. Indeed, Georgia is today the largest state by land area east of the Mississippi River (UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}} has a far larger total area, but so much of that is lake that Georgia edges Michigan out slightly on pure land).[[note]]We say "today" because Virginia was historically the largest east of the Mississippi until West Virginia broke off and reduced the Old Dominion to its current size.[[/note]] Georgia was also a common landing ground during British Colonisation, with most of the United States' plantations located there. Today it still has several large ports, with the Port of Savannah being the fourth largest in the US and a main HQ for distribution centers.

Georgia's borders are formed by the Savannah River, separating it from South Carolina to the east[[note]]There have been many long legal battles between Georgia and South Carolina over who owns what. The latest ruling decided that the (land) border is along the center line of the river for its entirety, and any new (post-1990) islands of land formed on the South Carolina side belong to South Carolina. Because of the 'new' distinction this suggests that there are parts of the state of Georgia (old islands) that are entirely encompassed by the state of South Carolina, though common trivia excludes this to maintain that the Kentucky Bend is the only part of a US state that is completely surrounded by other states (because of arbitrary line-drawing vs river-following border techniques)[[/note]]; the historic North Carolina line, separating it from NC and Tennessee to the north; the Florida-Georgia line, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin separating it from Florida]] to the south; and the Western bank of the Chattahoochee River, separating it from Alabama, to the west[[note]]Again, there have been legal battles: Alabama has always disputed that they Western bank is the point of the border -- giving the river to Georgia. The court has always unanimously upheld the border (specifically, it is the average water mark on the Western bank, so you could say that at some point the water has to be a little higher and ''that'' belongs to Alabama)[[/note]]. The Florida-Georgia line is also the inspiration for the name of the country duo Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine (they're from Orlando). It's worth a note that the continuation of this line, after Georgia ends and Florida borders Alabama, is not known by this name. Georgia has disputed its borders, too, claiming that topographers accidentally misplaced the Tennessee/Georgia border in the early 19th Century by drafting it about a mile too far South. This was only challenged in 2010, 200 years after the mistake, and during a significant drought in the state; to instate the border one mile north would allow Georgia access to the Tennessee River.

All worked well for nearly ten whole years; well, we say that, but the moving inland-ness didn't really settle well with the Spanish that were very comfortably surrounding them. They were somewhat amenable for nine years until, in 1742, they launched an invasion over the disputed land. The Floridians seemed to realize that a charter from the King of England didn't mean all that much to them. Three years earlier, the British had sent compromisers with a Convention to be signed by both European military parties: the "compromise", however, was more along the lines of Spain signing away any claim on what the British asserted was theirs, and Britain agreeing to not fight them for it in return. Lest to say, Spain did not agree. When the resultant War of Jenkins' Ear broke out in 1739, the Spanish back on the mainland began invasion planning. In 1740, the British raided St Augustine, but were kicked out. This made the Spanish confident of a successful attack.

The Spanish commander de Montiano landed at St Simons Island in 1742. It took six days, two battles around farmland (Battle of Gully Hole Creek and Battle of Bloody Marsh), and some very weak Spanish soldiers -- very kind to reveal the entire plan to a very small opposing force upon asking -- for an unconditional Spanish surrender. Though the Spanish and British remained on unfriendly terms for a long time, they would never invade British Georgia again. There ''were'' British plans to raid Florida again, but the war soon shifted focus to home playing ground in Europe -- upon its end in 1748, the Spanish formally recognised Georgia as a British colony. There were still troubles, though, as the colony was not highly profitable and wasted a lot during the war, meaning that the Trustees couldn't afford to run it and so, in 1752, they turned governance of the colony over to the British crown.

Things went pretty well for 25 years after that - farming, colonising Florida and Alabama, and pissing off the occupants. This meant that the people, early converts to UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, chose to join in [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution that little rebellion thing that happened on July 4th 1776]]. They signed the Declaration of Independence and ratified their first constitution a year later. It's worth noting that at this point in time, Georgia looked a little different. In fact, it was basically Georgia + Alabama + Mississippi, minus what of the latter two lays below the Florida-Georgia line: this was a major extension of Florida's panhandle. This is a result of how the British claimed land, but that's another story[[note]]They basically named the coastal area that they settled in and then claimed all land within those latitudes as far West as they could before the Spanish and French got all pissy about it. Massachusetts extended into present-day ''Iowa'' for a long time[[/note]].

For the next fifty years, we are to assume that everything went swimmingly for the residents of Georgia. It wasn't until close to 100 years after it was founded, in 1829, that the next big thing happened for the state: a gold rush. Gold was discovered in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the North of Georgia in 1828 and, as is to be expected, the area suffered a gold rush. Prior to this there had only been one, in the same mountain range, but to nowhere near the scale. The Georgia Gold Belt had been discovered[[note]]A high concentrate deposit of the quartz vein discovered during the earlier Carolina Gold Rush[[/note]], and though it extended across the state the biggest hauls were in Lumpkin county; the gold here was also close to 100% carat clarity. A national mint was set up in Dahlonega, and an influx of miners arrived. This caused a couple of problems, most importantly: who did the gold belong to? The government wanted a claim, the miners obviously wanted a claim, but so did the Cherokee. There was still a lot of native land, and a lot of the gold was in areas that had been decidedly Cherokee since the first Spanish expeditions. The government didn't care, and even tried to take some of the Cherokee land so that the new white settlers taking advantage of the gold rush could settle. In 1830, mines in three more counties were found, and in came more gold-diggers to undertake more mining operations. These excavations were known as the Great Intrusion, and in the same year UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson authorised the Indian Removal Act.

The Cherokee people were not happy. Many were forced to migrate west, and even when the Supreme Court finally recognised them as a sovereign nation (letting them retain ownership of ancestral ground) Jackson still kicked them out of the gold fields. The Gold Lottery was started, awarding former Cherokee land to miners. By 1838, the vastness of the gold production in the state was used to justify the actions earlier in the decade. However, it was only a few years later that the immediate sources dried up and mining diminished. Dahlonega had grown massively, though, and was fully established enough to retain the gold rush migrants. Though there was still gold it had become more of a lifestyle than an adventure, so when the California Gold Rush started in the late 1840s, a lot of placer miners moved out to the Sierra Nevada. Mining continued in Northern Georgia, the ridge seeming limitless to those who stayed, until the end of the century.

Come 1861 and UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, Georgia was one of the original states within the Confederacy, with major battles taking place across the state as soldiers wanted to reach and claim the coast -- in truth, a lot of the route from Atlanta to Savannah was destroyed in the March To The Sea. At the 1863 Battle of Chickamauga, the Union suffered its greatest defeat in the South, being second in number of casualties only to Gettysburg. Though a major success for the Confederacy, following the Chattanooga Campaign the Union sent in additional men (led by UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant) -- the Confederate army retreated and Major General Sherman led his campaign to Atlanta and then to the Savannah coast, greatly aiding the overall Union campaign in the War. Georgia was the last state to return the Union following defeat, in 1870.

The population of Georgia at this time was around fifty-fifty White and Black[[note]]Before the gold rush it is reported that there was a significantly higher percentage of African-American people[[/note]], though the state was largely under white power and highly racist throughout its history. This included a lot of African-Americans who had been working on the plantations, but who had steadily grown in rank and were occupying neighborhoods of Atlanta. It was then in 1908 that a push for maintaining autonomy went through and the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem white primary was established by the Democrats in the state]], a contributor to the Great Migration and the black population dropping significantly. In fact, the only resolution in the former UsefulNotes/{{Antebellum|America}} state came with official legislation in the mid-1960s.

'''Georgia''' is a Southern US state that borders the Carolinas, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}, [[SweetHomeAlabama Alabama]], and UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}}. Its capital and largest city is UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}. It is the youngest of the original Thirteen Colonies, being founded in 1733 (some of the original colonists were still alive for independence, which couldn't be said of any of the other colonies). Colonial custom also listed it last for geographical reasons (the colonies were usually listed north to south, and Georgia was the southernmost colony). Georgia was also one of the original seven [[UsefulNotes/TheConfederacy Confederate States]]. The northern parts of the state are within the [[UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}} Appalachian Mountains]], and the whole thing, apart from Metro Atlanta, is firmly part of the DeepSouth -- many country singers are from middle Georgia.

* '''Augusta and the South Carolina area'''. Still quite traditionally Southern, probably helped by the close border with fellow Heartland SC. Includes the Savannah River and all of its randomly growing islands. In golf, Augusta is best known as the home of the annual Masters tournament, held on the first full week of April at the Augusta National Golf Club.

* Wrestling/AJStyles (Gainesville)

'''Georgia''' is a Southern US state that borders the Carolinas, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}, UsefulNotes/{{Alabama}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}}. Its capital and largest city is UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}. It is the youngest of the original Thirteen Colonies, being founded in 1733 (some of the original colonists were still alive for independence, which couldn't be said of any of the other colonies). Colonial custom also listed it last for geographical reasons (the colonies were usually listed north to south, and Georgia was the southernmost colony). Georgia was also one of the original seven [[UsefulNotes/TheConfederacy Confederate States]]. The northern parts of the state are within the [[UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}} Appalachian Mountains]], and the whole thing, apart from Metro Atlanta, is firmly part of the DeepSouth -- many country singers are from middle Georgia.

Prior to European exploration, the state was populated by tribes of the Southeastern Cultural Complex. These people held close links to those in what is now Florida, suggesting that large parts of the two states were seen as the same area. Before colonisation, there were many explorations of Georgia by both the Iberian explorers coming from Central America and British colonists coming from the Atlantic. The state (with a much greater land area than today) was founded by [[UsefulNotes/HomeCounties Guildfordian]] general James Oglethorpe in 1733.

Atlanta has sports teams competing in four of the five major North American sports leagues: the Atlanta Falcons ([[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]]), Atlanta Braves ([[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams MLB]]), Atlanta Hawks ([[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]]), and Atlanta United FC ([[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueSoccer MLS]]). The [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL]] used to have two different teams in Atlanta, the Flames in the 1970s and the Thrashers in the 2000s, but both of these teams moved to UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} (the Flames to Calgary and the Thrashers-now-Jets to Winnipeg). College sport is also popular, with the state having seven UsefulNotes/{{NCAA}} [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball Division I football]] teams: the Georgia State Panthers, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Georgia Southern Eagles, and Georgia Bulldogs in the top-level FBS; and the Kennesaw State Owls, Mercer Bears, and Savannah State Tigers in the second-tier FCS. Sports stars from the state include Cam Newton and Ty Cobb.

* Creator/HulkHogan (born in Augusta, but grew up in the Tampa Bay Area)

The northern portions of the state, specifically the "Historic High Country" and "Northeast Georgia Mountains" regions, prides itself in its "Old Georgia" heritage, often claiming to be one of the last areas in Georgia practically untouched by major urbanization. Most communities are small and tightly-knit, and, while there will always be the occasional CorruptHick, [[TheFundamentalist PreachyPreacher]] or RightWingMilitiaFanatic (which is not at all exclusive to Georgia itself, mind you), most residents are surprisingly hospitable and willing to help out someone in need, provided that you don't cause trouble, and has a healthy tourism market, based mainly around camping, hiking, and state parks. One of the most popular destinations is Helen, a small city that has modeled itself after a Bavarian Alpine town, which, along with being a popular weekend destination for locals looking to get away from Atlanta for a bit, also hosts numerous Alpine-themed events year round, such as Volkswagen Tours, hot air balloon races, and, of course, Oktoberfest.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'': An [[Creator/AdultSwim]] animated comedy series detailing the lives of a family of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hillbilly squids]] and the hijinks they get into. The show frequently takes pot-shots at Georgia, including UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, but the show's creators, Williams Street Productions, are [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Atlanta-based,]] themselves.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'': An [[Creator/AdultSwim]] animated comedy series detailing the lives of a family of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hillbilly squids]] and the hijinks they get into. The show frequently takes pot-shots at Georgia, including UsefulNotes/Atlanta itself, but the show's creators, Williams Street Productions, are [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Atlanta-based,]] themselves.

* Music/KanyeWest
* UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson (born in Virginia, but spent his early childhood in Augusta)

'''Georgia''' is a Southern US state that borders the Carolinas, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}, UsefulNotes/{{Alabama}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}}. Its capital and largest city is UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}. It is the youngest of the original Thirteen Colonies, being founded in 1733 (some of the original colonists were still alive for independence, which couldn't be said of any of the other colonies). Colonial custom also listed it last for geographical reasons (the colonies were usually listed north to south, and Georgia was the southernmost colony). Georgia was also one of the original seven [[UsefulNotes/TheConfederacy Confederate States]]. The northern parts of the state are within the [[UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}} Appalachian Mountains]], and the whole thing is firmly part of the DeepSouth -- many country singers are from middle Georgia.

* '''Augusta and the South Carolina area'''. Still quite traditionally Southern, probably helped by the close border with fellow Heartland SC. Includes the Savannah River and all of its randomly growing islands. In sport, Augusta is best known as the home of the Masters golf tournament, held on the first full week of April at the Augusta National Golf Club.

* '''Augusta and the South Carolina area'''. Still quite traditionally Southern, probably helped by the close border with fellow Heartland SC. Includes the Savannah River and all of its randomly growing islands.

* ''Theatre/TheColorPurple'', based on Alice Walker's novel, is primarily set in the plantations of Georgia as it focuses on the 1930s for African-American women in the South.