Politics of Georgia (U.S. state)
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Politics at all levels of government in the state of Georgia was entirely dominated by conservative white Democrats in the period between Reconstruction and the Southern Strategy of Richard Nixon. Republicans were a tiny and irrelevant minority associated with Union military victory at the end of the Civil War.
Nixon's Southern Strategy, with its barely coded racist appeals to working class whites angered by the success of the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war protests, transformed voting in national elections as white Georgians, as well as across the once solid (Democratic) south, increasingly voted for Republican presidential tickets. In time, the Republican Party of Georgia would field competitive candidates and win races for seats in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. Widespread in-migration from northern states to the Atlanta suburbs later permitted Republicans candidates to win races for seats in the Georgia General Assembly.
By the start of the 21st century, conservative Republicans were the dominant force in state politics of Georgia and in statewide elections for national office.
Like most states, Georgia's urban areas are more inclined to vote Democratic, while its suburban and rurual areas are much more likely to vote Republican. Atlanta is a Democratic stronghold in Georgia.
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