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As planned all commuter trains would arrive at the Atlanta Multimodal Passenger Terminal (MMPT) the long-delayed facility just across Peachtree Street from the Five Points MARTA station where all of its lines meet Planning for the system and its extension as intercity rail across the state are the responsibility of the Georgia Rail Passenger Authority, Georgia had the second-fastest-growing Asian population growth in the U.S from 1990 to 2000 more than doubling in size during the ten-year period in addition according to census estimates Georgia ranks third among the states in terms of the percent of the total population that is African American (after Mississippi and Louisiana) and third in numerical Black population after New York and Florida Georgia was the state with the largest numerical increase in the black population from 2006 to 2007 with 84,000. In 1804 the state government decided that yet another capital would be needed Subsequently an act was passed authorizing construction of a new capital city on 3,240 acres (13 km2) in the area currently known as Baldwin County the city was named Milledgeville in honor of Governor John Milledge, The Thirteen Colonies and neighboring polities in 1748, Centennial Olympic Park High-speed rail Atlanta Georgia business directory. . .

In the area surrounding Peachtree Street very little of the original architecture was preserved Some of the notable exceptions listed on the National Register of Historic Places include the Margaret Mitchell House Rhodes Hall Edward C Peters House and the Academy of Medicine. Even before 2002 the state had become increasingly supportive of Republicans in Presidential elections it has supported a Democrat for president only three times since 1960 in 1976 and 1980 native son Jimmy Carter carried the state; in 1992 the former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton narrowly won the state Generally Republicans are strongest in the predominantly white suburban (especially the Atlanta suburbs) and rural portions of the state Many of these areas were represented by conservative Democrats in the state legislature well into the 21st century One of the most conservative of these was U.S Congressman Larry McDonald former head of the John Birch Society who died when the Soviet Union shot down KAL 007 near Sakhalin Island Democratic candidates have tended to win a higher percentage of the vote in the areas where black voters are most numerous as well as in the cities among liberal urban populations (especially Atlanta and Athens) and the rural Black Belt region that passes through the central and southwestern portion of the state, Officers Don't know Perini sold the Braves to a Chicago-based group led by William Bartholomay in 1962 Almost immediately Bartholomay started shopping the Braves to a larger television market Keen to attract them the fast-growing city of Atlanta led by Mayor Ivan Allen Jr constructed a new $18 million 52,000-seat ballpark in less than one year Atlanta Stadium which was officially opened in 1965 in hopes of luring an existing major league baseball and/or NFL/AFL team After the city failed to lure the Kansas City A's to Atlanta (the A's would move to Oakland in 1968) the Braves announced their intention to move to Atlanta for the 1965 season However an injunction filed in Wisconsin kept the Braves in Milwaukee for one final year in 1966 the Braves completed the move to Atlanta; .