Then it must have changed greatly since you lived around "these parts" because between Jasper and Young Harris up into Murphy, this is absolutely NOT a "prosperous area" at all for locals. IF we are strictly talking about "locals" and people that were born and bred here, that have never left.
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not exactly. With the exception of the area around Blairsville, the > mountains of north Georgia have always been prosperous and more like > the Catskills than Appalachia - vacation homes for the wealthy, or > workers for the carpet or tourist industries. The gold rush in > Georgia preceded the one in California, and made a lot of people > wealthy. The southern part of the state with the economy based mostly > on farming and pulpwood, has always been more improvised than the > mountains. > > I spent the first 50 years of my life mostly in the south and never > experienced the "Appalachian lifestyle" until I took a trip up Highway > 29 into Virginia in the mid 70s. We didn't have that kind of poor in > Georgia. > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Its all the same - Appalachia. In fact the Appalachian region nearly > > became its own state around 1800. Google State of Franklin some time. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345352 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
