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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Kemp Victory Only Delays the Reckoning Georgia slouches Gomorrah Georgians have a probably apocryphal story about Andrew Young, the black former mayor of Atlanta and ambassador to the United Nations. In an address at historically black Clark Atlanta University, Mr. Young talked about white flight. “No matter where they go,” he said, “we will follow. No matter how far away they move, we will follow. They can’t escape us.” It seems the only thing non-whites dislike more than white people is being forced to live among their own people. Mayor Young was right, since blacks always follow whites fleeing from the crime, property devaluations, and poor school systems created by others. The “Black Undertow” swallowed DeKalb and Clayton counties, turning them from thriving majority-white counties into majority-black counties resembling those whites had fled from in the first place. The recent Georgia governor’s race between white Republican Brian Kemp and black Democrat Stacey Abrams reflected this pattern; Mr. Kemp squeezed out the narrowest of victories. Miss Abrams has a record as a Confederate-baiter. As a college student she joined a burningof the Atlanta state flag that incorporated the Battle Flag. As a candidate, she vowed to sandblast the Confederate carving at Stone Mountain if elected. Yet she will almost certainly be a future candidate for the U.S. Senate, and the demographic transformation ensures that she becomes more likely to win with each election cycle. CNN Exit Polls for the governor’s race showed Mr. Kemp got 74 percent of the white vote, while Miss Abrams got 84 percent of the non-white vote (including 93 percent of the black vote). Whites make up 60 percent of the electorate in Georgia. Yet it’s the data from the metro Atlanta area that reveals the extent of the state’s transformation. In my definition, Metro Atlanta consists of Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Clayton, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Henry, Fayette and Douglas Counties. It represents the 9th largest metropolitan area in the USA. The city of Atlanta is in both Fulton and DeKalb County; the other seven counties are where whites fled after blacks took over the city government in 1973. In 1980, Cobb, Clayton, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Fayette and Douglas Counties all were more than 90 percent white. DeKalb County—which included part of Atlanta itself—was 71.3 percent white. By 2018, every metro Atlanta county had seen its white percentage of the population drop, sometimes catastrophically. In 1980, Clayton County was 91.7 percent white. In 2018, it is 11.2 percent white. Dekalb County has gone from 71.3 percent white to 29.5 percent white. Douglas County was 94.3 percent white in 1980, but is now 44.7 percent white. The black population, 5.7 percent in 1980, is 43.6 percent today. Rockdale County was 90.4 percent white in 1980 but is now just 35.6 percent white. The black population grew from 9.6 percent to 51.1 percent. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Ada (#0)
It sounds to me as if Andrew Young is trying to qualify as a stalker. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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