Category: Rural Georgia
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Mapping the death of rural Georgia
About a decade ago, still fairly early in my TIGC noodling, I came across an article about declining birth rates in rural areas in some other part of the country. Gee, I wondered. What’s the situation in rural Georgia? As it turned out, that was easy enough to figure out, thanks to an excellent public…
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Rural Georgia voters apparently believed Trump wouldn’t cut Medicaid. Oops.
I was motivated by a couple of things when I started working on “Trouble in God’s Country” more than a decade ago. The first was that I was convinced by research I was conducting that the socioeconomic divide between Georgia’s haves and have-nots was bigger than generally understood and getting worse year after year after…
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Maybe we should apply Jack Welch’s business strategies to rural Georgia
The Georgia General Assembly convenes in Atlanta next Monday for its 157th session. Naturally, this got me to thinking about Jack Welch. Well, maybe not naturally. The logic was admittedly a little circuitous. Focused as I am on the economic, educational and population health hellscape that is now much of rural Georgia, I was wondering…
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Can Coach Walz get the Democrats back in the game in rural Georgia?
(Note: About three months ago, I started writing a weekly “Trouble in God’s Country” column that now runs in about 30 daily and weekly papers, mostly in South Georgia. As a result of that work, however, I’ve been a little distracted from my usual TIGC research, but I’m trying to get back to that now.…
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Introducing the TIGC Georgia county rankings. First up: Population
This is the first in a series of pieces ranking Georgia’s 159 counties by various measures. I’m starting with population and will follow up with rankings for various economic, educational attainment and population health metrics, possibly among others. Eventually I’ll combine all those individual rankings into what I’ll call the TIGC Power Rankings. One of…
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Can Brian Kemp make Paul Krugman feel better?
Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist, seems even gloomier than usual these days, especially about the state of rural America. He recently went up with a column headlined “The Mystery of White Rural Rage,” which he called “arguably the single greatest threat facing American democracy.” He added: “I have no…