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cope1989
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« on: August 06, 2012, 01:03:18 AM » |
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DeKalb county, GA is pretty interesting.
In 1976 it was Carter's worse county, I believe. He won Georgia with 66% yet he only won 56% in Dekalb.
In 2008, McCain was the guy who won Georgia, with 52% of the vote, yet he only got 20% of the vote in DeKalb that year.
So the county goes from 10 points more R than the state as a whole, to 32 points more D in 30 years. This is pretty much all due to demographics. The county is over 50% black, so the minority voters make it Democratic. Then, the yuppies, college students at Emory, and researchers at the CDC make it liberal as well.
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