Georgia Odyssey
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Georgia Odyssey

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Georgia Odyssey

About this book

Georgia Odyssey is a lively survey of the state's history, from its beginnings as a European colony to its current standing as an international business mecca, from the self-imposed isolation of its Jim Crow era to its role as host of the centennial Olympic Games and beyond, from its long reign as the linchpin state of the Democratic Solid South to its current dominance by the Republican Party. This new edition incorporates current trends that have placed Georgia among the country's most dynamic and attractive states, fueled the growth of its Hispanic and Asian American populations, and otherwise dramatically altered its demographic, economic, social, and cultural appearance and persona.

"The constantly shifting cultural landscape of contemporary Georgia," writes James C. Cobb, "presents a jumbled panorama of anachronism, contradiction, contrast, and peculiarity." A Georgia native, Cobb delights in debunking familiar myths about his state as he brings its past to life and makes it relevant to today. Not all of that past is pleasant to recall, Cobb notes. Moreover, not all of today's Georgians are as unequivocal as the tobacco farmer who informed a visiting journalist in 1938 that "we Georgians are Georgian as hell." That said, a great many Georgians, both natives and new arrivals, care deeply about the state's identity and consider it integral to their own. Georgia Odyssey is the ideal introduction to our past and a unique and often provocative look at the interaction of that past with our present and future.

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Information

Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780820330501
eBook ISBN
9780820335094
Edition
2
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History
dealt 
with 
associations 
(good 
and 
bad) 
that 
had 
been 
formed 
relatively 
recently:
response
% 
of 
all 
responses
Olympics
28.8
e 
Braves
10.8
Crime
7.9
Business/Industry/Jobs 
5.8
Compare 
these 
with 
the 
percentage 
of 
respondents 
choosing 
more 
“tra-
ditional” 
regional 
associations 
with 
Atlanta:
response
% 
of 
all 
responses
Hospitality
3.0
Gone 
with 
the 
Wind 
2.2
Southern/South 
1.3
Since 
these 
surveys 
were 
taken, 
suffice 
it 
to 
say, 
incidents 
such 
as 
the 
dismissal 
in 
2002 
of 
Moby, 
a 
local 
country 
music 
disk 
jockey 
whose 
accent 
was 
deemed 
too 
“country” 
for 
his 
Atlanta 
audience, 
have 
done 
little 
to 
resouthernize 
the 
city’s 
image.
nouvelle 
georgia: 
traditional 
meets 
trendy
In 
reality, 
rather 
than 
choose 
between 
old 
and 
new, 
like 
their 
fellow 
Georgians 
in 
general, 
Atlantans 
have 
oſten 
opted 
to 
blend 
or 
simply 
juxtapose 
the 
two, 
much 
like 
an 
electronic 
message 
board 
at 
the 
city’s 
Peachtree 
Baptist 
Church 
that 
read, 
“Being 
Born 
Again 
Means 
Being 
Plugged 
Into 
A 
New 
Power 
Source.” 
Despite 
their 
cosmopolitan 
pre-
tensions, 
Atlanta’s 
ever-entrepreneurial 
boosters 
were 
clearly 
not 
above 
catering 
to 
stereotypically 
southern 
cultural 
tastes 
if 
there 
was 
money 
on 
the 
table. 
Development 
leaders 
opted 
in 
2006 
to 
make 
a 
last-minute 
and 
somewhat 
quixotic 
bid 
to 
make 
Atlanta 
the 
home 
of 
the 
future 
Nouvelle 
Georgia
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