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     "Georgia, Georgia on my mind," goes the refrain of the soulful, southern anthem made popular by Ray Charles. Over the past two decades, the phrase has come to echo in America's consciousness: Georgia has been on a lot of minds. In the deepest part of the Deep South, Georgia had long been thought to be synonymous with myriad banjo-picking stereotypes that cast the state as a hayseed's paradise. But at some point, America began to take notice of a different Georgia. Increasingly, Georgia's haystacks are being replaced by housing developments. Coca-Cola was born in raised in Atlanta, but today, the Atlanta corporation that best captures Georgia's fast-paced, cosmopolitan mindset is CNN - the 24 hour, international news juggernaut.

     The storied, Southern traditions that used to define the state are still pretty close to Georgia's surface though. In downtown Savannah, it's still possible to stroll across 18th century city squares and peek through wrought iron gates at grand old mansions. In fact, Georgia's past can seem overwhelming at times; at Stone Mountain, north of Atlanta, gigantic likenesses of Confederate heroes Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson are carved into a granite outcropping 825 feet high. Of course, the best way to understand the unchanging essence of Georgia is to get to know characteristically warm, genteel Georgians.

     If Georgia's on your mind, there are a couple facts you'll want to remember:

• Georgia's population is 8,186,453. Georgia's state capital is Atlanta.
• During the 1990s, Georgia was the sixth fastest growing state in America. In ten years its population jumped 26%.
• Gainesville, Georgia likes to call itself "the Chicken Capital of the World." And it isn't an empty boast; within city limits it's illegal to eat chicken with a fork.
• Sweet Vidalia onions can only be grown in the fields around Vidalia and Glennville, Georgia.
• Athens, Georgia is the site of the first university in America chartered and supported by public money.
• Georgia, founded by English noblemen James Oglethorpe as a colony where debtors from England could make a fresh start, is named after King George II.
• Georgia state law makes it a punishable offense to use profanity in front of a dead body.