Government
Atlanta: A Tale of New Cities
All around this majority-black community, the region’s cityhood movement has expanded. Now South DeKalb residents are faced with the question: Should they form a new city too?
DEKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA—To get to Sugar Creek Golf Course Park in South DeKalb County, Georgia, near Atlanta, you have to brave a drive down a gravelly road walled on both sides by a mess of overgrown weeds, brush, and a punishment of haggard woodlands. The passageway opens into a parking lot whose surface has seen better Saturday afternoons. Holding court is a small congregation of men huddled near a minivan, eating from Chinese take-out cartons, sipping beers, almost as if they were tail-gating. But it was clear from the scraggly conditions of the park that no games would be played there anytime soon.
Carl Griffin rolled his car window down. “Hey guys, what’s the course looking like?” he asked the men.