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You don't know much about Georgia, do you.
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What? I live in Atlanta. Geographical location should have no bearing on the appropriateness of this. Bible belt or not.
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My point precisely. This labeling of southern people as dumb rednecks thing gets old, particularly when you hear it as often as I do.
Back on topic, this is rather ridiculous. I do support Perdue's continued fight with Bob Riley and the Army COE to stop the draining of Lanier. What are your opinions on that?
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I really dont know. Reading through some stuff it seems like this was a serious concern in the 90's, when there were plans to build state water reservoirs in the state that got shot down due to developers complaining. Similar ideas were nixed in 03 and 04 too.
I dont know that AL and FL should suffer because GA leaders were not smart enough to realize that insane growth would lead to shortages at some point.
And there is at least some argument that the drought is overstated:
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I mean, it sucks for us living here, but I dont know that we have the right to cut off water to places that we have agreements with, even if they are tenuous.