25 things about Georgia that may or may not ring true

Welcome to Georgia.

Here you’ll find a Waffle House in walking distance of every Waffle House, a shopping cart is called a buggy and Sweet Tea is Georgia’s water.

Those are just a few of the 25 things the website, thoughtcatalog.com, thinks people should know about the Peach State.

In the list “25 things you need to know about Georgia” writer Jeremy Populus Jones dissects obvious and not so obvious items he believes to be true about Georgia and Georgians.

Whether all of these are true will be left up to you, but do you call a wash cloth a rag?”

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