Contrary to what you might hear, all regionals are mostly the same. The difference might be that management at one regional uses leather whips where as another uses wooden paddles. Just get on somewhere where they will be around for a while. Actually if I was you I would look at charter flying, find a learjet or citation job around your local airport. You don't want to go into the hell world of regional flying. And if you haven't commuted before in your life you will be in for a treat.

However, if regional is the only way to go for you and since you live in GA, I wouldn't go for Skywest or Horizon, no need to move to the other side since most Regionals are on the East anyways. Try PSA, I know a PSA captain, he makes around 100K a year and is happy there. Try ASA, Air Wisconsin, Expressjet. Avoid Eagle, I have heard some real bad stories of real abuse. As I have stated before, regional is not the only way into the airlines. Look into charter or 135 cargo.