I darn sure don't claim him, nor do most of the GA natives I run across. He was foisted upon us by the Left and the media, and was probably the reason the South turned Republican starting in 1980.
Full disclaimer: I moved here in '77, Jimmuh was already in Washington.
I've pinged a better authority on the matter for her comments.
You better believe it.
You won't find many people in GA with anything nice to say about him. Unlike most folks who mellow as they get older, he's just gotten meaner.
And there is a significant group of old-line Southerners who just HATE the Jews and agree with Carter. They seem to be mostly about Carter's age, from small towns, middle class, and they subscribe to the conspiracy theory that the Jews run everything . . . Fortunately that mindset seems to be dying out.