Democrats Discover New Path to Beating Trump in Deep South
- Voting shifts boost African-American candidates in region
- District Newt Gingrich won 11 times flips to black Democrat
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Barring a reversal of fortune by runoff or recount, Georgia’s next governor will be a Donald Trump-adoring white guy in a flannel shirt -- not the first black female state executive in American history, a symbol of change in a region that invented Jim Crow laws.
A victory for Republican Brian Kemp over former legislator Stacey Abrams would seem to prove, once again, that the New South is the Old South. Dig deeper into the results, though, and it’s clear that something has changed.