'A vote against Buckhead city is a vote FOR crime,' Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted ahead of Monday's vote.
show Buckhead's population is 11 percent Black, with a reported median household income of approximately $140,500. Including Buckhead, Atlanta's Black population is 51 percent and the city has a median household income of $60,000.
That dynamic has already raised questions of how much was motivated by crime itself and about race. In Mississippi, for example, state lawmakers recently voted to place the predominantly white neighborhoods of the predominantly Black state capital, Jackson,, raising comparisons to South African apartheid by Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba.
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