What was one of the biggest changes in georgia politics during the 19701. What was one of the biggest changes in Georgia politics during the 1970s? A. The growing political influence by African Americans at the various levels rnment B. The reconciliation of white and African American voters in order to work together C. The establishment of a two-party system in urban areas D. The increasing power of rural areas as a result of redrawing district boundaries

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What was one of the biggest changes in georgia politics during the 19701. What was one of the biggest changes in Georgia politics during the 1970s? A. The growing political influence by African Americans at the various levels rnment B. The reconciliation of white and African American voters in order to work together C. The establishment of a two-party system in urban areas D. The increasing power of rural areas as a result of redrawing district boundaries

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The reconciliation of white and African American voters in order to work together

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conservative Democrats regained control of the state legislature in the 1870s, through a combination of force, intimidation and fraud, with widespread voter suppression of black Republicans. At the turn of the 20th century, Georgia passed a new constitution and amendments that in practice disenfranchised most blacks and many poor whites. The exclusion of blacks from the political system was maintained well into the 1960s.[2][3] The legislature passed laws to institute legal segregation of public facilities and Jim Crow customs governed many informal rules placing blacks in second-class status.

In the postwar era after World War II, African Americans, particularly veterans, renewed their activism for civil rights, including being able to exercise the franchise. Conservative white Democrats formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, splitting from the national Democratic Party. This group-whose members were called Dixicrats-was very segregationist. It pushed for its candidate Strom Thurmond to be the Democratic presidential nominee in southern states. Georgia was the only Deep South state to reject Harry Truman, the national Democratic nominee, as its candidate. Thurmond ran as a third-party candidate in the state.[4]

During the 1960s and 1970s, Georgia made significant changes in civil rights, governance, and economic growth focused on Atlanta. It was a bedrock of the emerging "New South". In 1983, Georgia's tenth Constitution was ratified, and is the newest state constitution in the United States as of 2015.