It has always been that way in GA. The only GA Governor from Atlanta, oddly enough, was Lester Maddox.
What GA is becoming is more black. GA now has the 2nd highest black percentage of the population of any state, with MD the third blackest (a bit of a surprise). MS is tops, but the surprise is that SC and AL are behind GA. Of course, most of this black growth is in metro Atlanta. Check out the increase in the population in general, and in the percentage of the black population in Gwinnett and Cobb Counties, counties that were once the most Republican counties in GA at the Presidential level.
No. Black turnout was DOWN compared to 2012 and Georgia still swung to Clinton. Gwinnett and Cobb voted for Romney and flipped to Hillary. That was due to Trump's weakness in the suburbs. It didn't matter this election but it might next election.
