I’ll take my thesis one step further and predict some individual states splitting into separate states as things get more contentious. Not GA.
GA is not Atlanta or rather Atlanta is not GA. Suburbs of Atlanta have already split themselves off from downtown and created their own townships so they don’t have to pay the taxes to support the decaying inner city and its corrupt politicians. The bro’s and downtown Atlanta are becoming an Island. Nobody in their right mind even goes down there.
And now, to bring this full circle ...
Imagine, seeing what you see in front of us, and worrying about a monument in a park as though it’s a big deal
A lot of us are rearrangng deck chairs on the Titanic.
Myself included, if what you envision comes to pass. I hope it does not.
I don't know what you mean by "downtown Atlanta" but the city (not just the metropolitan area) has been growing over the last 20 years. The White population in particular has been growing in the actual city of Atlanta. Indeed, most American cities have been growing in population lately.
The South is not real interested in putting up Yankee monuments for reconciliation and national unity. Thats the kind of rhetoric you hear spouted from the Left wing Dems every time they want to force something on the rest of us.
There was a lot of rhetoric about reconciliation and national unity when ex-Confederates were trying to force Jim Crow on the rest of us. It's nice to know that the rhetoric was never sincere.
I don't know what you mean by "the South" either. Surely there are a lot of people there who aren't living back in the 19th century and licking their ancestors' wounds. African-Americans, the White descendants of unionists, people whose families moved to the region in more recent times, and younger people who weren't raised Confederate may add up to a significant proportion of the Southern population.