Yes indeed
Wasn’t that Ivan Allen?
Not sure. Just thought it was a general slogan, especially around 1996 Olympics time.
I don’t recall whether Ivan Allen coined the phrase, but it does go back to the 1960s when Atlanta was trying to set itself apart from other Southern cities, particularly “Bombingham”. It was probably more a result of Martin Luther King not wanting to crap where he ate than any real liberal tendencies, although Bob Woodruff did pull strings from his plantation in south Georgia where the black help was well behaved.