{"647976":{"#nid":"647976","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A \u0027Covid Crime Wave\u0027 Is One Reason These Residents Want to Break Away From Atlanta \u2014 but Critics Say a Split Would Be Devastating for the City","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/ronald-bayor\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERonald Bayor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Professor Emeritus in the School\u0026nbsp;of History and Sociology, was quoted in \u0026quot;A \u0026#39;Covid\u0026nbsp;Crime Wave\u0026#39; Is One Reason These Residents Want To Break Away From Atlanta \u0026mdash; but Critics Say a Split Would Be Devastating for the City,\u0026quot; published on\u0026nbsp;June 7, 2021, in\u003Cem\u003E CNN.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article details a renewed debate about Buckhead becoming its own city \u0026mdash; a debate\u0026nbsp;sparked by the highest crime rates Atlanta has seen in 30 years.\u0026nbsp;Bayor spoke about the reasons why Buckhead was pulled into the city to begin with, in the 1950s, and how splitting from the city would affect the population.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;It was pulled in to enhance the White population in the city and to create a White majority once again, so race was a very big factor in Buckhead coming in,\u0026quot; Bayor said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Basically, this would be splitting along some racial lines,\u0026quot; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35826","created_gmt":"2021-06-08 14:38:37","changed_gmt":"2021-06-09 02:53:59","author":"mshepard31","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"McMillan Street","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/07\/us\/atlanta-buckhead-city-movement\/index.html","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"77671":{"id":"77671","type":"image","title":"Ronald Bayor","body":null,"created":"1449178055","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:35","changed":"1475894691","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:51","alt":"Ronald Bayor","file":{"fid":"193845","name":"ron_bayor_200x300_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ron_bayor_200x300_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ron_bayor_200x300_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":33757,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ron_bayor_200x300_0_0.jpg?itok=aw5WZmrx"}}},"media_ids":["77671"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}