Sally Yates is an Atlanta native and a graduate of the University of Georgia.  Considering this is also the home of Jimmy Carter, Sam Nunn, John Lewis, Kasim Reed, and Andrew Young, not to mention Emory University and Spelman and Morehouse Colleges, people really ought to think twice before writing us off as just another Red State. 

Georgia - at least we're not Mississippi (with apologies to our neighbor in Dixie).