re: Riots In the South? Could it happen?

look at all the rioting areas. Even look back at Katrina. All poor areas looking for something free.

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I sort of alluded to that earlier, few if any southern cities have done more to embrace diversity and acceptance, Montgomery and Atlanta were pretty similar cities at the height of the civil rights movement in the '60's and for whatever reason Atlanta decided to accept change and move forward, and Montgomery decided to keep Montgomerying, look at the difference in the two cities now

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And that is not to say Atlanta doesn't have race issues. Obviously Atlanta has a big black population and it has plenty of black poverty and black crime and ghetto areas.

But it also has a huge black population that may live in undesirable areas from my perspective, but which are not the "food desert" type of ghettos you have in other cities. We have those ghettos too, but that's not where most of the black people live. Riverdale, which is a complete shithole where violence could occur, has a Home Depot and Wal Mart and chain restaurants.

Anyway, those things could burn in riots, but Atlanta is just a totally different dynamic. There isn't a comparable city in the country. Houston and DC are the closest, but they're still really different.