Brief overview of the state It is the state of Georgia that personifies the Southern state of mind and cultural experience, both the “Old South” of Savannah’s white-columned mansions and stone- paved streets lined with live oaks and Spanish moss and the ultramodern, high-tech, high-rise metropolis of Atlanta (fittingly nicknamed “Hot-Lanta”). Georgia was the last and southernmost of the 13 original colonies and held its own against Great Britain in Savannah and on the Kettle Creek and Fort Morris battlegrounds. It was a major force for the Confederacy in the Civil War and was irrevocably altered by it. On a…
