“they dont control any county around it.”
ummh, what about Dekalb and Clayton?
I was born at CWL in Fulton county. I remember the old Atlanta residents number tote board on Peachtree...got up to a million and more and then stagnated...in the 70s population started moving away from Atlanta to the outer counties - they now outnumber Altanta city proper by a good margin. Nowdays, anyone with any sense is moving even farther north or away from that place.... I expect one day that the city of Atlanta will be populated by a constituency of columns and pillars of salt..