The Atlanta metro is MASSIVE. I am technically in it. Atlanta Metro != Atlanta. If you drive through the metro Atlanta area, you’re going to see things like permanent Trump signs made out of wood and concrete. Yes, I’m aware that not everyone around me is a MAGAt, however I should film me driving from where I am (about 45 mins north of Atlanta) to Atlanta, back again, and then north. It is everywhere, including entire suburbs. All of this insanity is caused by religious stupidity which stemmed from Jerry Falwell standing to lose money from desegregation. There are hundreds of thousands of evangelicals that have been duped into believing that if a liberal has ever said anything, you’d go to Hell for agreeing. No, this is not hyperbole.
I lost my father recently. He was actually an incredibly intelligent man. He designed the microwave communications systems on the Hubble. Why am I mentioning this? He was actually intelligent and made a career from science based observations (he would often remind me that things are really hard to measure), but religion forced him to be stupid. That’s the serious power of religion - even if you have observed different mechanics on a scientific level you will do everything you can to mentally disprove such a theory if it might mean that you’ll go to Hell.
I still miss him. He taught me machining, and the material science problems that go with it (alongside trigonometry). What I don’t miss is the ability of a church to to spend decades making someone think that conservatism is generally positive since JERRY FALWELL STOOD TO LOSE MONEY FROM DESEGREGATION.
I get it, but lots of signs do not mean lots of votes. Where the highest population densities are in the Atlanta metro, you’ll have lots of Harris votes.
60 percent of Georgia’s population live in the Atlanta metro.
Take a look at this map from the 2020 election and you see why it’s tight in GA:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html
The Atlanta metro is MASSIVE. I am technically in it. Atlanta Metro != Atlanta. If you drive through the metro Atlanta area, you’re going to see things like permanent Trump signs made out of wood and concrete. Yes, I’m aware that not everyone around me is a MAGAt, however I should film me driving from where I am (about 45 mins north of Atlanta) to Atlanta, back again, and then north. It is everywhere, including entire suburbs. All of this insanity is caused by religious stupidity which stemmed from Jerry Falwell standing to lose money from desegregation. There are hundreds of thousands of evangelicals that have been duped into believing that if a liberal has ever said anything, you’d go to Hell for agreeing. No, this is not hyperbole.
I lost my father recently. He was actually an incredibly intelligent man. He designed the microwave communications systems on the Hubble. Why am I mentioning this? He was actually intelligent and made a career from science based observations (he would often remind me that things are really hard to measure), but religion forced him to be stupid. That’s the serious power of religion - even if you have observed different mechanics on a scientific level you will do everything you can to mentally disprove such a theory if it might mean that you’ll go to Hell.
I still miss him. He taught me machining, and the material science problems that go with it (alongside trigonometry). What I don’t miss is the ability of a church to to spend decades making someone think that conservatism is generally positive since JERRY FALWELL STOOD TO LOSE MONEY FROM DESEGREGATION.
I get it, but lots of signs do not mean lots of votes. Where the highest population densities are in the Atlanta metro, you’ll have lots of Harris votes.
It’s insane to me that the population of Atlanta is only 500k, but the metro area is 6,300k. Suburban sprawl completely out of control.