Full Version: Georgia County To Be Split Into Two Parts?
Maybe this isn't big news elsewhere, but it made headlines where I live.
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To be debated:
Is this a good idea or a bad idea?
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ATLANTA - A potentially explosive dispute in the City Too Busy to Hate is taking shape over a proposal to break Fulton County in two and split off Atlanta’s predominantly white, affluent suburbs to the north from some of the metropolitan area’s poorest, black neighborhoods.
Legislation that would allow the suburbs to form their own county, to be called Milton County, was introduced by members of the Georgia Legislature’s Republican majority earlier this month.
Supporters say it is a quest for more responsive government in a county with a population greater than that of six states. Opponents say the measure is racially motivated and will pit white against black, rich against poor.
Legislation that would allow the suburbs to form their own county, to be called Milton County, was introduced by members of the Georgia Legislature’s Republican majority earlier this month.
Supporters say it is a quest for more responsive government in a county with a population greater than that of six states. Opponents say the measure is racially motivated and will pit white against black, rich against poor.
To be debated:
Is this a good idea or a bad idea?
QUOTE(Victoria Silverwolf @ Jan 25 2007, 12:20 AM) 
Maybe this isn't big news elsewhere, but it made headlines where I live.
Link
QUOTE
ATLANTA - A potentially explosive dispute in the City Too Busy to Hate is taking shape over a proposal to break Fulton County in two and split off Atlanta’s predominantly white, affluent suburbs to the north from some of the metropolitan area’s poorest, black neighborhoods.
Legislation that would allow the suburbs to form their own county, to be called Milton County, was introduced by members of the Georgia Legislature’s Republican majority earlier this month.
Supporters say it is a quest for more responsive government in a county with a population greater than that of six states. Opponents say the measure is racially motivated and will pit white against black, rich against poor.
Legislation that would allow the suburbs to form their own county, to be called Milton County, was introduced by members of the Georgia Legislature’s Republican majority earlier this month.
Supporters say it is a quest for more responsive government in a county with a population greater than that of six states. Opponents say the measure is racially motivated and will pit white against black, rich against poor.
To be debated:
Is this a good idea or a bad idea?
Its a good idea, and there's nothing new about it. Splitting territories, states, counties, heck, even cities/towns is an old and honored tradition in America. This particular instance looks to be pitting the "we want to do things our way" curmudgeons against the "wahhhhhh, but you're going to take your money with you" rabble.
That's what it comes down to, at least from the snippet presented. The affluent want to go their own way, and the poor (or more likely, those who claim to have the poor's best interests at heart) don't want to have to muddle through without the subsidies.
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