Georgia

... taken over by private equity? If so, there's your answer. Private equity firms have taken the Mafia's business model and pumped it full of steroids. They are a virulent, metastatic cancer that has no right to exist, and the magnitude of their evil can only be measured in astronomical terms.
Their bottomless greed is behind the housing crisis, skyrocketing healthcare costs, and every other form of predatory price-gouging you can imagine.
They are soulless sociopaths devoid of even the slightest trace of common human decency.