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Main article: Elections in Georgia (U.S state), Consistent with national trends the murder rate in Atlanta peaked in 1990 and have declined since From 2000 to 2010 murders in the city declined by nearly 50 percent the years 2009 and 2012 had the lowest numbers of homicides in Atlanta than any year dating back to 1963 but there has been an increase in murders in the city beginning in 2013 the number of murders in Atlanta was 80 in 2009 92 in 2010 88 in 2011 85 in 2012 82 in 2013 93 in 2014 95 in 2015 and 111 in 2016 a significant number of murders have remained unsolved; as of February 2017 51 of the 111 homicides from 2016 remain unsolved! .

Rockdale Haralson Transport, 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; Catholic Augusta The most popular freshwater game fish are trout bream bass and catfish all but the last of which are produced in state hatcheries for restocking Popular saltwater game fish include red drum spotted seatrout flounder and tarpon Porpoises whales shrimp oysters and blue crabs are found inshore and offshore of the Georgia coast, 103 2317, Portugal (106) The Georgia Bulldogs (Southeastern Conference) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (Atlantic Coast Conference) Georgia State Panthers and Georgia Southern Eagles (Sun Belt Conference) are Georgia's NCAA Division I FBS football teams having won multiple national championships between them the Georgia Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have a historical rivalry in college football known as Clean Old-Fashioned Hate and the Georgia State Panthers and the Georgia Southern Eagles have recently developed their own rivalry. Ecology 13 Tree canopy Historic composition. The Georgia School of Technology opened in the fall of 1888 with two buildings One building (now Tech Tower an administrative headquarters) had classrooms to teach students; the second building featured a shop and had a foundry forge boiler room and engine room it was designed for students to work and produce goods to sell and fund the school the two buildings were equal in size to show the importance of teaching both the mind and the hands though at the time there was some disagreement to whether the machine shop should have been used to turn a profit. Major products in the mineral industry include a variety of clays stones sands and the clay palygorskite known as attapulgite, Map of part of Midtown Atlanta 1895 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! After the Civil War ended in 1865 Atlanta was gradually rebuilt Due to the city's superior rail transportation network the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868 in the 1880 Census Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgia's largest city Beginning in the 1880s Henry W Grady the editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper promoted Atlanta to potential investors as a city of the "New South" that would be based upon a modern economy and less reliant on agriculture by 1885 the founding of the Georgia School of Technology (now Georgia Tech) and the Atlanta University Center had established Atlanta as a center for higher education in 1895 Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition which attracted nearly 800,000 attendees and successfully promoted the New South's development to the world!