Metro Atlanta So Different Now

THE ATLANTA AREA has changed so much.  It hums as a pluralistic, powerful society now.  A few decades ago it was so lean and odd.  It was the apotheosis of Mencken's 'Sahara of the Bozart' in many ways.  I remember the first time I saw a Datsun vehicle on these streets. Yet, now it has folks from so many different cultures that it is a "melting pot" as the arcane pundits say.  It is a much more interesting subculture of the U.S. this big thing called Atlanta.  However in many ways the rugged old culture blood veins are still there.  This is the literary land of Caldwell and Mitchell and to some degree a little bit of the noted Alabaman, Harper Lee, also.  It appears difficult to understand this essence defined as Atlanta.  But perhaps it is best to simply not think too much....just let Atlanta be itself.