The Keystone State still primarily comprises rural white, working-class voters, the same ones who propelled Ronald Reagan to victory in 1980 and 1984, and freshman Sen.
According to Bill Frey, a demographer at the Milken Institute in California, more than 1.6m people have left the state in the past decade, most of them middle-income and working-class whites.
"We are tremendously excited to be creating a world-class studio in the state of Georgia and are looking forward to working with Pinewood in the many years to come, " said Jim Pace, managing partner of the investment group, River's Rock LLC.