The state of my birth, Georgia, is responsible for some of the greatest artists of the 20th century: Flannery O'Connor, Gladys Knight, Alice Walker, Steven Soderbergh, Kanye West, Julia Roberts, Otis Redding, Johnny Mercer, Carson McCullers, Ma Rainey, Little Richard, Mary J. Blige, and, of course, Ryan Seacrest. (Well, they can't all be winners.) So it's devastating to realize that Georgia may