Atlantan in New York of the South

Atlantans regard enthusiastic vacationers with dismay.
We'll scramble some salty eggs for their breakfast and lay a pat of butter on their grits to
get them started. We'll set the translucent plastic gallon-jug of Publix sweet iced
tea sweating on the table among the coffee mugs. After that, they're on their own.


In the late 70s through mid-80s, Atlanta went through it's "New York of the South" advertising bit
mostly from smaller Southern cities, but slowly, more came from other regions of the U.S. as well.
What the Olympics did was announce to the rest of the world that Atlanta actually existed,
and that it wasn't the "Gone with the Wind"