Not the place where you reside, but how you reside in that place

("From Carter to M.T.G.: What a Peach State Plummet")

But it is not that Georgia has "gone south", for this is not merely the state where purple is the color of M.T.G's rhetoric, but black is the color of one of their two Democratic Senators. And that one, Reverend Warnock, stands on the pulpit once occupied by Martin Luther King.

So this is not an indictment of sour tasting peaches, but a recognition that our country is not, as the loud mouthed heckler would suggest, a neat divide of red and blue. The reality is this nation is black and blue, under attack from those like Ms. Greene who find no place in their heads or their hearts for the likes of Mr. Carter who devoted a lifetime not to attention of self but to care of others, whose greatest glory was not in the office he held but in the morality he exemplified, who was daily reminder of the best, not the bottom feeders, of what we can offer.

The fact that Georgia has been home to both our extremes informs us that it is not the place where one resides but how one resides in that place that is the measure of a person.  Elevated or in the gutter. Your choice.