Michelle Strickling, an M.F.A. candidate from Decatur, Ala., changed her plans.
"Multicultural," Rebecca Ewing, a boutique color forecaster from Decatur, Georgia, said.
Originally from Greenville, S.C. she graduated from Decatur (GA High Schooll and Furman University.
Hollimon, a junior from Decatur, Ga., runs Princeton's anchor leg.
Big Boi was native to nearby Savannah, while André originally hailed from Decatur.
"I am not really happy right now with anybody," a woman from Decatur, Ill., recently told a Washington Post reporter.
Most of the middle- and upper-middle-class parents are social progressives from Decatur, a liberal enclave.
Ms. Washington's efforts led her to State Senator Arthur Orr, a white lawmaker from Decatur, a city about an hour from Scottsboro.
Mr. Champion, a clarinet player from Decatur, Ga., had dreamed since high school of attending Florida A&M, a 13,000-student historically black university in Tallahassee.
One of her bridesmaids, Angela Riley (below with the bride), a friend from Decatur, even got in a request for Ms. King's favorite song, "Hold On," by Wilson Phillips.
Firestone switched production of tires for the Explorer from Decatur to other factories last January for reasons the company has never explained.
