Georgia’s Changing Demographics Turn GOP Stronghold More Democratic
- State has become less Republican over the past 10 years
- Influx of eduated professional workers have moved to Georgia
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Forsyth County is an area of north central Georgia, long known as a place where Black people were not welcome. In 1912, White men avenging the rape and murder of a White teenage girl drove more than 1,000 Black residents out of the county — though not before lynching some of them.
But in a sign of how much shifts in demographics across the South have changed Georgia’s politics in recent years, 34% of Forsyth voters picked Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock over his Republican challenger Herschel Walker. That’s almost double the 18% of the vote in the county that went for Democrat Barack Obama for president a decade ago.