Georgia, like many other Southern states, went through a political realignment in the decades following the Civil Rights Movement as white Southerners shifted loyalties from Democrats to Republicans. The state’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction, Sonny Perdue, was not elected until 2002. Yet Georgia’s been governed by Republicans ever since Perdue took office.
Governor Wants To Pack Georgia Supreme Court And Give Republicans A Majority
Ian Millhiser, Think Progress
Tue, 10/06/2015 - 9:42am
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