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. Atlanta's Piedmont Park with rare snowfall in winter In the 2018 elections the governor remained a Republican (by 54,723 votes against a democratic black female Stacey Abrams) Republicans lost eight seats in the Georgia House of Representatives (winning 106) while Democrats gained ten (winning 74) Republicans lost two seats in the Georgia Senate (winning 35 seats) while Democrats gained two seats (winning 21) and five Democrat U.S Representatives were elected with Republicans winning nine seats (one winning with just 419 votes over the Democratic challenger and one seat being lost).

Slaves See also: List of oldest structures in Atlanta, The Georgia Film Music and Digital Entertainment Office promotes filming in the state Since 1972 seven hundred film and television projects have been filmed on location in Georgia Georgia overtook California in 2016 as the state location with the most feature films produced in FY2017 film and television production in Georgia had an economic impact of $9.5 billion Atlanta now is even called the "Hollywood of the South." Television shows like Stranger Things the Walking Dead and the Vampire Diaries are filmed in the state Movies too such as Passengers Forrest Gump Contagion Hidden Figures Sully Baby Driver the Hunger Games: Catching Fire Captain America: Civil War Black Panther Birds of Prey and many more were filmed around Georgia, Loganville pop 10,458 2.1 Committees Recent history. China: CCTV Conversion to Georgia State Stadium; 42/6 77/25 Following a decline after World War II due to competition from cars and airplanes rail transport has had a revival in recent decades due to road congestion and rising fuel prices as well as governments investing in rail as a means of reducing CO2 emissions in the context of concerns about global warming. Legal segregation was ended by passage of federal legislation in the 1960s According to the 1960 census the proportion of Georgia's population that was African American was 28%; hundreds of thousands of blacks had left the state in the Great Migration to the North and Midwest New white residents arrived through migration and immigration Following support from the national Democratic Party for the civil rights movement and especially civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 most African-American voters as well as other minority voters have largely supported the Democratic Party in Georgia in the decades since the late 20th century the conservative white-majority voters have increasingly supported Republicans for national and state offices, Middle colonies Bird: brown thrasher, 4 Company Officers Evan Gattis catching for the Braves in 2013. 38 Anthony Swarzak In 1867 Major General John Pope military governor of Georgia called for an assembly in Atlanta to hold a constitutional convention at that time Atlanta officials moved once again to have the city designated as Georgia's state capital donating the property where Atlanta's first city hall was constructed the constitutional convention agreed and the people voted to ratify the decision on April 20 1868 the Georgia General Assembly first convened in Atlanta on July 4 1868. 65/18 92/33 3.2 French and Indian War Smoltz The architecture of Atlanta is marked by a confluence of classical modernist post-modernist and contemporary architectural styles Due to the complete destruction of Atlanta by fire in 1864 the city's architecture retains no traces of its Antebellum past Instead Atlanta's status as a largely post-modern American city is reflected in its architecture as the city has often been the earliest if not the first to showcase new architectural concepts However Atlanta's embrace of modernism has translated into an ambivalence toward architectural preservation resulting in the destruction of architectural masterpieces including the Commercial-style Equitable Building (Atlanta's first skyscraper) the Beaux-Arts style Terminal Station and the Classical Carnegie Library the city's cultural icon the Neo-Moorish Fox Theatre would have met the same fate had it not been for a grassroots effort to save it in the mid-1970s, Legislative authority resides in the General Assembly composed of the Senate and House of Representatives the Lieutenant Governor presides over the Senate while members of the House of Representatives select their own Speaker the Georgia Constitution mandates a maximum of 56 senators elected from single-member districts and a minimum of 180 representatives apportioned among representative districts (which sometimes results in more than one representative per district); there are currently 56 senators and 180 representatives the term of office for senators and representatives is two years the laws enacted by the General Assembly are codified in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated.