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Since the invention of the cotton gin at the end of the 18th century, short-staple cotton was the crop of choice throughout the Black Belt of the South. The rich, black soil, combined with ready market access via the Flint River (bordering the county on the east) or the Chattahoochee River (farther west), put Sumter among the state's most ...
Cotton was originally called "Mapleton", and under the latter name was founded in 1899. [2] The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place in 1913 as the "Town of Cotton", with municipal corporate limits extending in a one-half mile radius from the central railroad depot. [3] The present name is after the local cotton growing industry. [2]
Georgia was the only Deep South state to reject Harry Truman, the national Democratic nominee, as its candidate. Thurmond ran as a third-party candidate in the state. [8] During the 1960s and 1970s, Georgia made significant changes in civil rights, governance, and economic growth focused on Atlanta. It was a bedrock of the emerging "New South".
The Georgia State Election Board on Friday voted 3-2 to require counties to hand-count ballots cast on Election Day, a move that could drastically lengthen the amount of time to tally results in a ...
The board’s three Republican members made the same argument earlier this month when the board voted 3-2 to require election officials to conduct a “reasonable inquiry” into whether votes ...
The state board, the Republican groups, and the Democratic groups all agreed at the outset of Tuesday's proceedings that county election boards are legally required to certify results by 5 p.m ...
A controversial rule passed by the Georgia State Election Board on Friday will require all of the state's voting precincts to hand-count ballots and ensure the tallies match machine counts before ...
Georgia weighed in for this election as 4.2% more Republican than the nation-at-large. Georgia marked the strongest leftward shift in a state that Trump carried in 2016, as the state's PVI shifted 3 points more Democratic since then. Georgia's trend towards the Democrats can be partly explained by the growth of the Atlanta metropolitan area.