United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Boney, F. N.2004-02-06Encyclopedia article about poor whites in Georgia. Georgians have always had the poor in their midst. But from the inaccurate story of original settlement of the colony by inmates of debtors' prisons in England to the modern distortions of such writers as Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O' Connor, Erskine Caldwell, and James Dickey, the prevalence and depth of poverty are often exaggerated. Still, many of Georgia's early settlers were poor people seeking a better life. Many found it; some did not. As in the North and West, hardscrabble farms and rough frontier were fertile ground for poverty, and slums grew rapidly in urban areas as well. By the 1850s grim tenements for desperate Irish immigrants existed in Savannah, just as in Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City.GSE identifier: SS8H8, SS8H8text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Poor whites--GeorgiaPoor whitesText