True story- when Carter was elected President, I was having the Georgia Weather Wire teletype line installed in my house, and the Southern Bell technician seemed like a pretty sharp kind of guy, so I asked him what he thought of our new President.
I'll never forget his answer:
"Mr. John, it'll be just like it was here in Georgia... he'll come, he'll go... and nobody'll be able to figure out what the Hell he did..."
Good story and boy, ain't that the truth. My parents lived in Atlanta at the time of his Presidency and Georgians were tickled that one of their own (particularly a cracker) was President, but no one could point to what he had done in Georgia to warrant it.