Hank Aaron 15 See also Performing arts venues Douglasville pop 30,961 The ascendancy of the Republican Party in Georgia and in the South in general resulted in Georgia U.S House of Representatives member Newt Gingrich being elected as Speaker of the House following the election of a Republican majority in the House in 1994 Gingrich served as Speaker until 1999 when he resigned in the aftermath of the loss of House seats held by members of the GOP Gingrich mounted an unsuccessful bid for President in the 2012 election but withdrew after winning only the South Carolina and Georgia primaries. . Main article: Music of Georgia (U.S state) Hispanic Americans are the fastest growing ethnic group at 10.4% of the metro's population in 2010 versus only 6.5% in 2000 the metro's Hispanic population increased an astounding 109.6% or 298,459 people in ten years Major Hispanic groups include 354,351 Mexicans 43,337 Puerto Ricans and 17,648 Cubans All of those groups' populations increased by over 90% in the ten-year period Of the metro's 299,000-person increase in the Hispanic population from 2000 to 2010 98,000 came in Gwinnett County 57,000 in Cobb 55,000 in Fulton (all but 3,000 outside the city of Atlanta) 20,000 in Hall and 15,000 in DeKalb County. Main article: 2005 Atlanta Braves season 68/20 85/29 Georgia was ranked the No 2 state for infrastructure and global access by Area Development magazine. Atlanta was the host city for the Centennial 1996 Summer Olympics Atlanta has also hosted Super Bowl XXVIII in 1994 and Super Bowl XXXIV as well as the NCAA Final Four Men's Basketball Championship most recently in 2013 the city hosts college football's annual Chick-fil-A Bowl (Formerly known as the Peach Bowl) Atlanta hosted the NCAA Final Four Men's Basketball Championship in April 2002 April 2007 and April 2013; and will do so in April 2020. ? ? ? ? Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S state of Georgia With an estimated 2018 population of 498,044 it is also the 37th most-populous city in the United States the city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area home to 5.9 million people and the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the nation Atlanta is the seat of Fulton County the most populous county in Georgia Portions of the city extend eastward into neighboring DeKalb County, Georgia State Route 316 is a four-mile-long route that branches from I-85 and stretches eastward into Gwinnett County it continues east as a normal divided highway through the suburb of Lawrenceville and on to Athens. Tue 24th 5.3.3 Transportation During the 1960s and 1970s Georgia made significant changes in civil rights and governance As in many other states its legislature had not reapportioned congressional districts according to population from 1931 to after the 1960 census Problems of malapportionment in the state legislature where rural districts had outsize power in relation to urban districts such as Atlanta's were corrected after the US Supreme Court ruling in Wesberry v Sanders (1964) the court ruled that congressional districts had to be reapportioned to have essentially equal populations.
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