Atlanta (my humble belief) is a unique lab ‘experiment’ where ‘old’ Atlanta has taken five or six suburbs (Buckhead being one) and dragged them into greater-Atlanta. For all the advancements in the 1960s and since...it’s NOT a cohesive city.
Since the Braves moved out toward Buckhead, and most of the malls within the inner-city are decaying/dying-off...it’s become a commuter nightmare and traffic jams are becoming legendary.
Once Buckhead separates and moves to be it’s own city...I’ll predict within three years at least one additional suburb will do the same thing.
It’s a politically charged up town, and virtually every single function (even the police) are some political tool. Locally (just for 2021), there’s been 13 folks killed (shot) on the roadways within the city so far, and a highly charged-up atmosphere dragging it toward urbanized warfare (like Chicago already is).
I believe that the majority of fans who were going to see Braves games were white.
Did the Braves build out Buckhead way cause white suburbanites were refusing to come in to the city?