Georgia's voters become more diverse ahead of this year's election

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 10/25/18 | Mark Niesse and Jennifer Peebles

[Pining_4_TX]

Georgia’s registered voters became more racially diverse this year, continuing a long-term demographic trend among the electorate.

White voters are still the majority in Georgia, but their collective influence is slowly waning each election year, according to voter registration data from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. Meanwhile, racial minorities are gradually gaining ground.

The latest voting numbers released this week by the state present an updated look at how it has changed in recent years, in terms of race, gender and age. The figures were compiled after the Oct. 9 voter registration deadline and analyzed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The voter registration figures tell a story that’s been unfolding for years: Georgia’s voting population is undergoing a consistent demographic shift that could influence which candidates and political parties win elections.

In the race for governor, about 70 percent of white voters support Republican Brian Kemp, and 92 percent of black voters back Democrat Stacey Abrams, according to an AJC poll conducted this month. Election Day is Nov. 6.

[WashingtonSource]

Yes, but a larger and growing percentage refuse to identify their race. Which group is most likely to do that? White people.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Need a job?

https://twitter.com/DGPurser/status/1057245818191781889

[ealgeone]

True....but Isackson is old. If he dies in office, the governor gets to appoint his replacement.

[FreedomPoster]

I don’t think that translates to local Republican votes with a black candidate on the ballot. I hope I’m wrong, and that measurable numbers of blacks learned from the Obama years. But I’m not counting on it.

[Zhang Fei]

[As 90-95% of blacks vote democrat, as do 70% of Latinos and Asians, the more racial diversity we have, the more elections become simply a racial head count, as opposed to a contest of ideas.]

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It will change. The problem is that it will take a *long* time. For a good 100 years after they showed up en masse, starting in the 1870’s, Italians provided a fairly reliable super-majority of their votes for the Dems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Americans#Politics That is why we need to stanch the flood of new immigrants immediately, the way it was halted in the 1920’s. That pause gave the GOP the breathing room it needed to recover in the voting booth. Over time, the children of immigrants assimilate by sleeping with the enemy (i.e. marrying the offspring of native-born Americans). But that process takes many decades, as the political history of Italian-Americans demonstrates.

[BlackbirdSST]

As long as the Georgia state legislature remains Republican, not much will change. The governor in Georgia can use the pocket veto under some circumstances to thwart the will of the legislature, which the present outgoing governor occasionally used, but does not have sweeping powers to order Medicaid expansion, for example, or make other sweeping changes.

That's very good to know, thank you!

[drpix]

The problem is that the Dems not only pay them to attend rallies and to protest Republicans - but they also have and will continue to pay them to vote.

[Pining_4_TX]

You are so right. :-(

[riverdawg]

“True....but Isackson is old. If he dies in office, the governor gets to appoint his replacement.”

Good point; I had forgotten about that.

[ealgeone]

As voting for Trump to me was really a vote for SCOTUS a vote for Kemp is really a vote for a potential Senator.

[LilFarmer]

I don’t really believe any poll put out by the AJC. There are many more black conservative business owners in Atlanta than the AJC would care to admit.