Netroots Nation 2017 to be held in Atlanta

“Some pro­gres­sives like to write off the South, but jus­tice and equal­i­ty will nev­er be ful­ly achieved in the Unit­ed States with­out pro­gres­sive move­ments win­ning there,” the announce­ment added. “There are some amaz­ing groups and activists on the ground fight­ing every day, and we’ll be there to ampli­fy the work hap­pen­ing not just in Atlanta and Geor­gia, but through­out the South.”

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This will be just the third Net­roots Nation held in August, and, as men­tioned, the first in the South and the twelfth over­all. Here’s a his­to­ry of the conference:

• June 8th-11th, 2006 (as Year­lyKos): Las Vegas, Nevada
• August 2nd-5th, 2007 (as Year­lyKos): Chica­go, Illinois
• July 17th-20th, 2008: Austin, Texas
• August 13th-19th, 2009: Pitts­burgh, Pennsylvania
• July 22nd-25th, 2010: Las Vegas, Nevada
• June 16th-19th, 2011: Min­neapo­lis, Minnesota
• June 7th-10th, 2012: Prov­i­dence, Rhode Island
• June 20th-23rd, 2013: San Jose, California
• July 17th-21st, 2014: Detroit, Michigan
• July 14th-17th, 2015: St. Louis, Missouri

Las Vegas holds the notable dis­tinc­tion as the only city to have host­ed the con­ven­tion more than once. The west­ern­most city to have host­ed NN to date is San Jose, the east­ern­most is Prov­i­dence, and the city clos­est to the geo­graph­ic cen­ter of the Low­er 48 to have host­ed is this year’s choice — St. Louis.