Adam Griffin
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« on: April 22, 2021, 06:09:31 PM » |
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The general trend of white suburbanites leaving/being replaced in what we think of today as "urban counties" by black voters. Besides Fulton & Dekalb (ATL) and Clarke (UGA), there wasn't a single modern-day urban county in GA that voted for Dukakis. Until the 80s give or take, what we think of as urban counties (which at the time were still largely inner-suburban counties in any meaningful definition) were the most GOP places in the state.
Just as an illustration: Clayton County was 73% Reagan in '84; 65% Bush in '88; 45% Clinton in '92.
I imagine there may have had some revolt against a "non-Carter ticket" candidate as well, as the Democratic Party really began to take its modern-day national form in the 1988 election.
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