GA: 1980 Senatorial General Election Result

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What's most odd, by today's standards, is the fact that the Republican won the urban areas, while the Democrat carried the rural ones.

This is the South. This was common until quite recently (Oklahoma Senate 2004, for a very late instance. Bill Clinton in Texas) as the Republican conquest of the South from the 50s onward began in the cities and new suburbs before reaching the countryside.