I also remember visiting Phoenix and Atlanta in the early 70s, thinking how nice they were, then 5 million or so folks moved into each one making them look a lot like Chicago with a warmer climate.
I was born in Georgia...roamed the streets of Atlanta at night many a time.
Call it racist, I don’t really care...Atlanta proper became unsafe when Maynard Jackson, the first black mayor, became mayor. It has been unsafe ever since then. If you live in the city of Atlanta and go out at night, your more than likely to be a victim. They can’t even protect the students at Georgia Tech, or GSU....at least an incident EVERY week.
I don’t care how the police jiggle their reports and statistics (Chief Beverly Harvard’s Police force was caught by the FBI falsely reducing the crime statistics -— Mayor Kaseem Reed and his bunch are now reporting lowest crime in nearly ever.....same damned thing). They lie to get businesses to stay and to mislead stupid white people to move to “cool city.”
The black poweratti of the mayorship is interested in only one thing...how they can get their hands on all that concession cash at the Atlanta Airport and how they can keep on being re-elected..