(CNN) Georgia may feel teleported to the center of the US political universe, but its emergence as a swing state has been a long time coming. We're not seeing a big shift in terms of White voters in the state of Georgia, even though Georgia has a nontrivial number of White Democratic voters. But you can't win with 90% of 30% of the population, so you need a nontrivial number of White voters. Atlanta brings new voters to the stateWHAT MATTERS: Why are the White voters in Georgia potentially more liberal than they are in neighboring southern states? A hundred years ago, who would have thought that the Democratic Party, the party of segregation, that would be the party of Civil Rights today?

Source: CNN January 03, 2021 12:56 UTC