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[edit] Not biggest city, in biggest county, in biggest state east of the Mississippi
There is a reason Waycross stopped using that slogan almost 20 years ago. If you take the time to check the facts of the 50 states. You will see that of all the states east of the Mississippi river, Michigan is ranked 11th in size with 97,990 square miles, Florida is ranked 22nd in size with 65,795 square miles, and Wisconsin is ranked 23rd with 65,498 square miles, where as Georgia is ranked 24th in size with only 59,411 square miles. Thus making Michigan, NOT Georgia the biggest state east of the Mississipi River with Florida being the second largest, Wisconsin 3rd largest and Georgia 4th largest. So Waycross can only make the claim of being "the largest city, in the largest county in Georgia.Aladdin Zane 16:33, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
- Who started the slogan? Why did they start it? --Mjrmtg 00:24, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
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- Georgia is ranked 1st in total area, not land area. Tbone8425 17:45, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
- Please provide a valid citation, showing how this is possible. Also you just stated it is 1st in total area, and the numbers I used above are for Total area. So you are mistaken. I grew up in Waycross, the slogan used by a local businessman on T-shirts he made in the 1980's was "Waycross, Georgia: The biggest city in the biggest county in the biggest state east of the mississipi" 1st thing: It is the ONLY city in Ware County, the word biggest would be based on the assumption there were more than one. 2nd Georgia is not the biggest state east of the mississippi.Aladdin Zane 17:50, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
- Excuse me, I meant "land area" instead of "total area." Big deal.Tbone8425 18:18, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
- No need to be excused, accidents happen. Land area only - doesn't count when naming the biggest states because the land under the water doesn't count, Only dry land area does. and the slogan wasn't "waycross, Georgia: the biggest city in the biggest county in the biggest state(land area only) east on the mississippi" or "waycross, georgia: the biggest city in the biggest county in the biggest state(excluding river area, lake area, and pond area) east of the mississippi:Aladdin Zane 18:39, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
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- Whoever keeps adding that "Waycross is the biggest city in the biggest state" to this article, please stop. Go to List of U.S. states by area and notice how Florida is bigger then Georgia in total area. --Mjrmtg (talk) 00:12, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Merger proposal
There is a stub article for Tebeauville, Georgia, which only consists of saying that this was a previous name for Waycross. This can be mentioned in this article, and the Tebeauville, Georgia article should be deleted. Fences and windows (talk) 21:02, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
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