Maybe not. Jason Underwood, a location manager living in East Point who has sited southside locations for everything from Madea movies to FX’s Atlanta explained to me that rather than being known for its dystopian landscapes, “Atlanta specializes in the ND, the nondescript. Middle America, suburbia, any story that’s not anchored to a specific geographical locale—Atlanta does that extremely well.” And due to the state’s aggressive tax incentives for film and television productions, as he put it, “Those things are going to be filmed in Atlanta regardless. They are coming for the tax incentives, not the blight.”

Here in Georgia, qualifying productions can receive up to 30 percent in tax breaks by shooting here and dropping the logo – a cheerful, stylized peach – at the end of the credits. As a consequence, Georgia now hosts the world’s third-largest movie industry behind Los Angeles and the United Kingdom, and the film industry generates $6 billion in economic impact in the state. According to the Georgia Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Office, some 124 film and television projects were produced in the state in 2016, ranging far beyond The Walking Dead and encompassing everything from romantic comedies and Christmas specials to American Ninja Warrior and Pooh to the Rescue.

But what are being recorded on the streets of my neighborhood are not typical romantic comedies or Hallmark dramas. While the area is represented as decrepit and desolate in the media, what Trump, and other outsiders fail to recognize is that the so-called inner city is teeming with life and culture.