“This is not your father’s or grandfather’s Georgia,” said Charles Bullock, professor of political science at the University of Georgia. “It is a different Georgia, a different population.”In the 2012 presidential election, Republican nominee Mitt Romney won Georgia by 8 percentage points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton eked out a win there with just 51% of the vote; Biden won it by nearly 60%. “I expected it to be much closer,” said Emanuel Jones, the Black Democratic state senator whose district includes Henry County, noting Clinton’s narrow margin in 2016. Last week, they managed to oust House Minority Leader Robert Trammell, the state’s last rural white Democratic legislator.
