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[acroyear]

so i'm in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, quite possibly the most wired place in the country.  EVERYBODY has a wireless tap, usually free.

not only does the pub i'm in have XM playing (top tracks 46), but the avis shuttle at the airport also was XM-playing.

would that fairfax was so hip...

BTW the pub has Holy (Gr)ale on tap.  yummmmmm...

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[piraterogue.livejournal.com]

What pub were you at? I live north suburbs of Atlanta. I would have responded to your other post about a meetup but the youngling is sick and possibly not going anywhere at all this weekend, we shall see.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

highlands grill, next to La Quinta in Kennesaw, just off I-75.

so far, saturday is still free...

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

When I lived there back in the late 80s, Cobb County was pretty much the enclave of transplanted yuppie northerners. There wasn't much of the South in Cobb county. Course, if you just went over the border to, say, Woodstock, then things would change mightily.

Course, even that has probably changed by now, with suburbs moving farther out.

I lived closer to the Roswell side of the county, so I'm not that familiar with Kennesaw.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

Well, get to the right part of Kennesaw and DAMN you're in the "South". Keep in mind that in spite of the large high-tech/IT community (that exists because of Marietta and by extension, Atlanta proper), this is the same county that made the pre-Dover PA headlines for putting "It's a theory not a fact" stickers on all the biology textbooks before a lawsuit told them to stop it.

Old-town Kennesaw had more Confederate flags than Stars and Stripes flying.

The difference between here and where you and I are? When "liberals" move into places like Loudoun where a culture war could brew, comparable to IT/high-tech liberals moving to Cobb, they VOTE. Loudoun has successfully kicked out the far-right-wing dumbasses of discrimination and ignorance.

By contrast, the techies that move into Cobb DON'T vote; they're not of the D.C. culture where votes really matter and the apathy is pretty high. As such, Cobb can still get boards of education or county governments that will do stupid right-wing "culture-war" stuff in spite of the fact that they don't really represent what the majority here might feel.