\n\n“how did Georgia go from light red to blue \u2014 or at the very least, purple?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The answer is pretty simple: The Atlanta area turned really<\/em> blue in the Trump era. Definitions differ about the exact parameters of the Atlanta metropolitan area, but 10 counties1<\/sup><\/a> are part of a governing collaborative<\/a> called the Atlanta Regional Commission<\/a>. Almost 4.7 million people live in those 10 counties<\/a>, or around 45 percent of the state\u2019s population<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Until very recently, the Atlanta area wasn\u2019t a liberal bastion. There was a Democratic bloc that long controlled the government within the city limits of Atlanta<\/a> and a Republican bloc that once dominated the suburbs<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n …<\/p>\n\n\n\n “suburban Atlanta is trending blue”<\/p>\n\n\n\n