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Did The MCU Help Turn Georgia Blue?
From Witches, Norse Gods, and Spider-men too
To super sets being built in studios new.
Heroes converging from their Hollywood view
Did the MCU help turn Georgia blue?
In 2015, a little film called Civil War went to camera
In and around the city of Atlanta.
The tax incentives were too good to eschew
They were so good, in fact, they made Homecoming too.
Fast-forward half a decade and Georgia is hot
With superheroes, supervillians, both onscreen and not.
Disney pumping billions into a Marvel stew
Did the MCU help turn Georgia blue?
The Peach State getting redder since 2008
Until 2016, when that trend began to abate.
In 2018, Abrams nearly came through
While artists and craftspeople, to Georgia, they flew.
Then came 2020 and 2021
Where Republicans lost and Democrats won.
From Trump to Senators Loeffler and Perdue
