H. L. Mencken, the acerbic early 20th century journalist known as “the scribe of Baltimore,” came to regret the harshness of his essay, “The Sahara of the Bozart,” a diatribe against the absence of cultural life in the South.
He eventually justified it for helping to ignite the literary movements for which the South became famous later in the century.

No doubt Mr. Mencken would be surprised to find that Georgia today, despite its faults, has a dynamic economy and claims Atlanta as the Southeast’s commercial capital.

After all, it was Georgia that he labeled to be the “worst” state in the South, calling it “crass, gross, vulgar” and other pejoratives.

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The South’s coastal cities such as Charleston and Savannah traditionally have claimed superior affinity for the arts in contrast to inland metropolises like Atlanta.

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