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Frey, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. From to , Georgia, North Carolina and Texas saw the greatest increase in the key voting bloc of black people 55 years or older , due to migration. Much of the return migration has been to urban areas, as economic opportunities, together with family and cultural ties, have drawn hundreds of thousands to the South in recent years. Powder Springs and Douglasville are less than 25 miles from downtown Atlanta, and both have seen marked growth in the last decade or so.

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But Camilla, a town of fewer than 6, residents, is miles south of Atlanta, and Adairsville, with under 5, residents, is 60 miles northwest of it. Smelser, who has lived in Powder Springs for 22 years, says that many of the fewer than 2, citizens who cast votes in the recent mayoral election saw Thurman as a sign of change, after going sour on the previous mayor, who was elected to three consecutive terms.

He owns a landscaping business and served on the City Council for 13 years. The only nod he gives to his historic achievement comes in an anecdote from the campaign trail. He recalls the look of surprise on the faces of well-heeled black residents of Powder Springs when he knocked on their doors to announce his candidacy. Thurman speaks of ample support from white voters and declines to comment directly on whether he is concerned about any of his white constituents judging him by the color of his skin.

Willie Burns became the first black mayor of Washington, Georgia, in That election, in which he lost to a white candidate by 90 votes, was the subject of a Washington Post story. The Post story drew nearly comments, many from present and former Washington residents who identified themselves as white and rejected the idea that the town was racist.

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Still, Burns says he hopes that his organization helps black mayors in his state to become better mayors, period. In places like this, tension between past and present bubbles up from time to time, he says. It will be a long time for tensions around issues of race to dissolve. Hard-hit counties in rural Alabama report rates three times the national average.

A series of mysterious incidents have prompted difficult questions about race and justice. Seventy years after George Stinney was youngest person to die by electric chair in South Carolina, he gets a new trial. Supporters hope to keep the university alive through government funding, despite resistance from some lawmakers. New report documents 3, lynchings from to — more than earlier estimates.

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