In January 2006 a new party, Georgia's Way, was created.

Consideration of replacing Georgia's republic with some form of constitutional monarchy has become part of the Georgian political debate since the Georgian Orthodox primate and other leading Georgians suggested the idea in 2007.

Georgia's economy has traditionally revolved around Black Sea tourism, cultivation of citrus fruits, tea and grapes ; mining of manganese and copper ; and output of a big industrial sector producing wine, metals, machinery, chemicals, and textiles.

This 3, 143-foot peak, located between Helen and Cleveland, is dramatically rimmed by sheer cliffs and has the distinction of being the highest point on Georgia's Piedmont Plateau.

The county sits firmly within Georgia's coastal plain region and has predominantly sedimentary rock and red and yellow clays.

Echols County has become notable in recent years as it has served as a place of banishment for many of Georgia's criminals.

The school also has competitive MIAA Division I athletics, having won several state titles in different sports and given rise to former major league pitcher Brian Rose and former North Carolina Tar Heel basketball player Jess Gaspar along with UCONN Football star Jordan Todman and Georgia's Arthur Lynch.

However, discoveries of the Africanized bees in southern Louisiana indicate this subspecies has penetrated this barrier, In October 2010, a 73-year-old man was killed by a swarm of Africanized honey bees while clearing brush on his south Georgia property, as determined by Georgia's Department of Agriculture.

Shevardnadze has taken much of the credit for Georgia's economic performance under his rule.

The University has seen its academic reputation rise markedly since Georgia's HOPE Scholarship program was started in 1993.

Georgia's men's lacrosse team has won the South Eastern Lacrosse Conference three times, in 1998, 2007, and 2008, and received an automatic bid to the MCLA national tournament ; while the women's team earned an at-large bid to the WDIA National Tournament in 2007.

According to a 2001 survey by the North American Vexillological Association, New Mexico has the best-designed flag of any U. S. state, U. S. territory, or Canadian province, while Georgia's 2001 – 2003 state flag was rated the worst design.

Georgia's Parliament has 150 members, known as deputies, from which 77 members are proportional representatives and 73 are elected through a single-member district plurality system to represent their constituencies.

In the late 2007, concerned with Georgia's declining birth rate, Ilia II offered to personally baptize any child born to a family that already has at least two children, as long as the new child was to be born after his announcement.

Georgia's flag was named the worst, but has since been changed, and Nebraska's flag was named second worst.

He has also criticized the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe mission in the region on several occasions, accusing the organization of bias and likening its activities to " of Georgia's secret services ".

However, despite most past big games being played at Legion Field, Bryant – Denny Stadium has hosted many memorable games, such as the 1994 shootout between Alabama's Jay Barker and Georgia's Eric Zeier, Marvin Constant's goal-line stop against LSU quarterback Josh Booty as time expired in 1999, Tyrone Prothro's reception over the back of Southern Miss defensive back Jasper Faulk in 2005, a 31 – 3 victory over No. 5 Florida in 2005, the Roman Harper-forced fumble against Tennessee in 2005 that helped the Tide to victory, Alabama's 36-0 shutout victory against Auburn in 2008 thus breaking the six-game losing streak and first ever Iron Bowl victory in Bryant – Denny Stadium, and Terrence Cody's field goal block against Tennessee as time expired in 2009.

Unlike Georgia's Interstate highways, the highway still has actual sequential exit numbers, rather than being mile-log.

Illarionov has questioned the official Russian version of the Russian-Georgian war over Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Jekyll Island has proved to be one of Georgia's greatest assets as a year round resort area.

Castillo de San Marcos has withtood siege by British forces led by the governor of the Carolina Colony James Moore, in 1702 and Georgia's colonial governor James Oglethorpe in 1740.

She has been a regular board two for Georgia's Women's Olympiad team and helped them reclaim the gold medal at Dresden in 2008, scoring a very useful 7 / 10.

In presidential races, Georgia has not given its electoral college votes to the Republican candidate only four times since 1964: in 1968, segregationist George Wallace won a plurality of Georgia's votes on the American Independent Party ticket ; former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter won his home state by landslide margins in 1976 and 1980 ; and then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton won a plurality of votes in 1992 against incumbent Republican George H. W. Bush and Independent Ross Perot.

The jury said it did find that many of Georgia's registration and election laws `` are outmoded or inadequate and often ambiguous ''.

The Coleman Institute Catalog said that it was named for John Reynolds, one of Georgia's famous governors, while another source said it was named for the superintendent of the railroad at the time.

Immediately after the incident, live on Rustavi-2 television, Georgia's Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili said there was no reason to suspect foul play.

In March 2006 interview with the Washington Post Georgia's ex-president Eduard Shevardnadze also said that he believed Zhvania was murdered.

The Georgian authorities have seized the opportunity, since the 4 January presidential election, to further bring Georgia's election process in closer alignment with European standards for democratic elections, including OSCE commitments and Council of Europe standards ," the report said.

Commonly-cited examples of dog-whistle politics include civil rights-era use of the phrase " forced busing ," used to enable a person to imply opposition to racial integration without them needing to say so explicitly ; the state of Georgia's adoption, in 1956, of a flag visually similar to the Confederate battle flag, itself understood by many to be a dog-whistle for racism ; the phrase " Southern strategy ," used by the Republican Party in the 1960s to describe plans to gain influence in the South by appealing to people's racism ; Ronald Reagan, on the campaign trail in 1980, saying in Mississippi " I believe in states ' rights " ( a sentence the New Statesman later described as " perhaps the archetypal dog-whistle statement "), described as implying Reagan believed that states should be allowed, if they want, to retain racial segregation ; Reagan's use of the term " welfare queens ," said to be designed to rouse racial resentment among white working-class voters against minorities ; a 2008 TV ad for Republican presidential candidate John McCain called " The One ," which observers said dog-whistled to evangelical Christians who believed Obama might be the Antichrist ; a Tea Party spokeswoman saying President Obama " doesn't love America like we do ," thought to be an allusion to Obama's race and to the birth certificate controversy, and Republicans frequently emphasizing Obama's middle name for the same reason ; an aide to 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney saying Romney would be a better President than Obama because Romney understood the " shared Anglo-Saxon heritage " of the United States and the United Kingdom ; former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, and others, calling Obama " the food stamps president " said to be a way of exploiting stereotypes among racially resentful white voters who see food stamps as unearned giveaways to minorities.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia have seceded unilaterally from Georgia and would be given autonomous status if Georgia's territorial integrity were restored.

On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed the amendment to have been adopted on December 6, 1865, when Georgia's ratification brought the total number of states to ratify to 27 of the then 36 states.

Many of Georgia's most notable residents have come from Milledgeville.

Opponents of Georgia's transportation policies have alleged a race-based two-tiered system, where billions are spent by the state on highway expansion to aid the commutes of mostly Caucasian residents of the suburbs and rural areas ( like GRIP ), while service cuts at MARTA have hurt mostly African Americans.

Marshall's language in Worcester may have been motivated by his regret that his earlier opinions in Fletcher and Johnson had been used as a justification for Georgia's actions.

Others, such as former Georgia athletic director Damon Evans, have dismissed the idea that Georgia's recent losing record is due to the game being played in Jacksonville.

The Georgia Court of Appeals recently ruled that Walker County Georgia does not have a claim under Georgia's Hazardous Site Response Act.

Furthermore, four prominent remaining Blue Dogs, Dennis Cardoza of California, Dan Boren of Oklahoma, Mike Ross of Arkansas, and Heath Shuler of North Carolina have announced their retirement ; one member, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, is running for Senate ( partially due to Republican redistricting efforts ); and more members, such as North Carolina's Mike McIntyre as well as Georgia's John Barrow, have been or will be targeted by Republicans in redistricting efforts.

Some reporters have credited Zubr's leaders with the idea of a ' Denim Revolution ', which, they hoped would attract popular support as Ukraine's Orange Revolution and Georgia's Rose Revolution.

The irregularly shaped district, which stretched from Atlanta to the Atlantic Ocean was created to encompass enough of Georgia's African-American population to create a district where an African-American would have a high chance of being elected.

* Georgia's fans have only rushed the field and torn down the goal posts once in the stadium's history.

Ellis Arnall wrote: ' You have my permission to quote me as making the following observation: Documentary evidence uncovered by Stetson Kennedy has facilitated Georgia's prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan.

During Alexander Lukashenko's inauguration ( ceremony ) as President of Belarus of 22 January 2011 Lukashenko vowed that Belarus would never have its own version of the Orange Revolution and Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution.

Howly was a devout Roman Catholic at a time when Catholic sacraments were not available in Georgia, and so he sought to have priests from Spanish Florida come administer to Georgia's Catholics.

The Georgia typeface is similar to Times New Roman, but with many subtle differences: Georgia is larger than Times at the same point size, and has a greater x-height at the same actual size ; Times New Roman is slightly narrower, with a more vertical axis ; and Georgia's serifs are slightly wider and have blunter, flatter ends.

Such movements have had a measure of success, as for example in Serbia's Bulldozer Revolution ( 2000 ); in Georgia's Rose Revolution ( 2003 ); and in Ukraine's Orange Revolution ( 2004 ).

June 29, 1998: The Council on School Performance releases a study that concludes: " We found that recipients of Georgia's HOPE Scholarship are more likely to remain enrolled in college, have higher college grade point averages and have earned more credit hours than students without the scholarship.

One day, after the Khevsur village was invaded by the Kists ( Ingush, in classical Georgian works, despite the name of the modern group of Chechen Georgians in Georgia's name being the " Kist ", Kist actually referred to the Ingush ; the name for Chechens was the " Dzurdzuks "; however, Ingush were less likely to raid then Chechens due to socioeconomic factors, so it may have very well been a Chechen nonetheless ), Aluda followed the invaders and killed both of the robbers.

Similar honors have been issued for Georgia's militia navy, which has only existed on paper since 1908.