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Georgia

Empire State of the South

About Me

On February 12, 1733 (February 1, old style) a group of six small ships landed at Yamacraw Bluffs and set up on a site Oglethorpe had chosen earlier. It would become the city of Savannah.
Fast Forward hundreds of years full of growth and excitement...
Georgia is the 10th most populous state in the United States. It was the site of the 1996 Olympic Games. Georgia is a popular destination for travelers. It was the seventh most desirable destination in the U.S, with 48 million visitors in 2003. This popularity provides the state with an excellent economic engine and makes tourism a vital component of Georgia's prosperity.
Georgia is located in the southestern corner of the United States just above Florida. It's known for it's heat, friendliness/southern hospitality, sweet tea, peanuts, proffessional, collegiate, and high school sports, excellent universities.
Georgia is also home of the world known Habitat for Humanity housing organization. Its headquarters still remains in Georgia.
It is also the headquarters of Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, and numbers more of different corperations. Georgia has the oldest state park organization in the United States. So whether you are interested in seeing past president Jimmy Carter in his hometown of Plains, Ga, watching a ballgame at Turner Field in Atlanta, or just want to see Georgia's beautiful landscape and explore it's incredible history, we invite you to come visit.

My Interests

All songs on this profile are performed by artists from the state of Georgia. southern accents, soul food, collard greens, coke, southern rap mecca (atl), peanuts, kool-aid, sports, braves, falcons, hawks(through thick and thin. lately a lot of thin), thrashers, the masters golf tournament, bulldogs, yellow jackets, history, atl, macon, columbus, savannah, augusta, athens, tybee island, and the good old hometowns, potluck, cookouts, hank aaron, michael vick, chipper jones, john smoltz, tom glavine(what happened?), david justice, farmer tans, culture clashes, jimmy carter, more, more, and more.

I'd like to meet:

Famous Georgians:
* Abraham Baldwin * Kim Basinger * André "André 3000" Benjamin * Martha Berry * Julian Bond * James Brown * Joseph E. Brown * Buckner & Garcia * Blacklight Posterboys * Asa Griggs Candler * Jimmy Carter * Rosalynn Carter * Spud Chandler * Ray Charles * Howell Cobb * Matt and Mike Chapman * Ty Cobb * Charles Coburn * Jackie Cochran * Pat Conroy * Harry Crews * David Cross * Charles Crisp * Jack Davis (cartoonist) * William Crosby Dawson * Diana DeGarmo * Bucky Dent * Jermaine Dupri * Bobbie Eakes * Teresa Edwards * Bill Elliott * Clement A. Evans * Dakota Fanning * William Few * Howard Finster * Laurence Fishburne * Jeff Foxworthy * Walt Frazier * John C. Fremont * Kelli Giddish * John Brown Gordon * Nancy Grace * Amy Grant * Nathanael Greene * Lewis Grizzard * Jasmine Guy * Lyman Hall * Oliver Hardy * Joel Chandler Harris * Nancy Hart * Lucille Hegamin * Ed Helms * Bill Hicks (born in Valdosta, Georgia.) * Hulk Hogan * Doc Holliday * Larry Holmes * Evander Holyfield * William Houstoun * Holly Hunter * Beau Jack * Alan Jackson * Herschel V. Johnson * Bobby Jones * Mammy Kate * Stacy Keach * Fanny Kemble * DeForest Kelly * Walt Kelly * Joe Kennedy * Martin Luther King, Jr. * Gladys Knight * Mirabeau Lamar * Peter Lawler * Sidney Lanier * Brenda Lee * Spike Lee * Natalia Livingston * Crawford Long * Juliette Gordon Low * Chris Lowell * Bill Lowery * Ludacris * Lil' Jon * Lil' Scrappy * Lester Maddox * Manuel Maloof * Carson McCullers * William McIntosh * Cynthia McKinney * Blind Willie McTell * Johnny Mercer * Zell Miller * Margaret Mitchell * Johnny Mize * Flannery O'Connor * James Oglethorpe (founded the state.) * Eugene Odum (faculty of The University of Georgia.) * Terrell Owens (lives in Georgia) * Danielle Panabaker * Albert Parker * Bert Parks * Antwan "Big Boi" Patton * George Foster Peabody * Dr. John Stith Pemberton * Ty Pennington * Madeleine Peyroux * Dwight Phillips * Harriet Powers * Robert Poydasheff * Kazimierz Pulaski * Pogo Possum * Ma Rainey * Jeannette Rankin * Otis Redding * Jerry Reed * Little Richard * Travis Richter * Julia Roberts * Jackie Robinson * Sugar Ray Robinson * Tommy Roe * Franklin D. Roosevelt (had second home in Georgia and died there) * Billy Joe Royal * Lillian Smith * Junior Samples * Ryan Seacrest * Diana Scarwid * Josh Smith * Steven Soderbergh * Moxley Sorrel * Joe South * Alexander Stephens * Ray Stevens * Michael Stipe * T.I. * Alma Thomas * Clarence Thomas * Kenan Thompson * Robert Toombs * Gwen Torrence * Travis Tritt * Chris Tucker * Melanie Thornton * Carl Vinson * Alice Walker * Butch Walker * Herschel Walker * Douglass Watson * James Moore Wayne * John Wesley (born in the United Kingdom) * Kanye West (raised in Chicago, Illinois) * Devon Werkheiser * Eli Whitney (born in Massachusetts) * Dominique Wilkins * Alicia Leigh Willis * Joanne Woodward * Lizz Wright * Will Wright * Trisha Yearwood * Young Jeezy

Music:

So many genres have been created and/or influenced by the state of Georgia in some way.
Some Georgian musical artists include:
Ray Charles, Ray Stevens, Otis Redding, James Brown, Little Richard, Outkast, R.E.M., T.I., Goodie Mob, Cee-Lo, Alan Jackson, B-52's, Gladys Knight, Allman Brothers, Jermaine Dupri, Young Jeezy, Of Montreal, Widespread Panic, TLC, Curtis Mayfield, Kenny Rogers, Ludacris, Usher, The Black Crowes, Collective Soul, Mastodon, Duke Pearson, Cat Power, Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ying Yang Twins, Ciara, D4L, Elf Power, Dem Franchize Boyz, Danger Mouse, Travis Tritt, Kelly Rowland, and many more.
Rolling Stone Magazine named Athens, Georgia the number 1 music town in the country. Georgia's music scene has always been one of the most diverse and extroidinary in the world.

Movies:

Filmed in Georgia:
To Dance with the White Dog, Dumb And Dumberer, Drumline, Glory, Sweet Home Alabama, The Fighting Temptations, Road Trip, Remember The Titans, Scream 2, Driving Miss Daisy, Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil, Something To Talk About, Forrest Gump, Glory, The General's Daughter, Roots, and many more.

Books:

Some Georgia authors include: Conrad Aiken, Joyce Knight Blackburn, Pat Conroy, Carmen Deedy, Linda W. Harrell, Stan Hayes, Rebecca Hagan Lee, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O'Conner, Alice Walker, and many more.

Heroes:

The Peach and R.E.M.