Perspective: The surprising roots of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s idea of national divorce
: suburban Atlanta in the 1990s and 2000s, particularly north Fulton County.
Metro Atlanta’s pattern of racial separation unfolded in two phases. During the 1960s and 1970s, working- and middle-class White Atlantans fled to the suburbs nearest to the city by the tens of thousands, fearing the integration of Atlanta’s schools and its residential neighborhoods. The 1980s and 1990s witnessed a further suburban boom — one that helped Greene’s father’s construction company prosper — centered on new residential and commercial development in the northern suburbs.
Large industrial property owners — who were paying full freight — balked, threatening to sue the state. Georgia responded by forcing the county to reappraise every parcel. In 1991, the county informed taxpayers that 90 percent of them would see increases in their assessed value — by an average of 40 percent.
Most importantly, because the northern suburbs kept growing with high-value developments, every new cycle of reappraisals produced another sudden jump in tax bills. Conservative Republicans like Karen Handel, who won countywide election as commission chair in 2003, used these hikes to stoke resentment over taxes for political gain.The tax revolt catalyzed a secession movement in north Fulton.
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