What Happens When Republicans Take Control Of The Georgia Legislature?
They repeal some laws intended to enforce segregation. The Republicans take control of the Georgia Legislature for the first time in a century and they repeal the Jim Crow Laws. The democrats scream the Republicans are racists, but it seems when good things happen for Blacks in Georgia, Republicans are behind it. I know it is a purely symbolic gesture, but why didn’t the Democrats do something about it previously? (Those not familiar with politics in Georgia may need to know that this is the first time that the Republicans have controlled Georgia since the Reconstruction era, so it has been more than a century since they had control.) If you would like to know a little about the content of the laws that were just repealed, you can find some brief descriptions in this Washington Post article. (You can also follow the link to the Atlanta Journal Constitution article given in the post, but I skipped that after I ran into registration questions that I thought were far too intrusive.) By wa
