Forsyth County is an area of north-central Georgia that has long been known as a place where black people were not welcome. In 1912, white men seeking revenge for the rape and murder of a teenage white girl evicted more than 1,000 black residents from the county—but not before lynching some of them.
But in Tuesday’s U.S. Senate runoff, 34% of the district voted Democrat — which helped re-elect Sen. Raphael Warnock over his Republican challenger Herschel Walker — up from the 18% who elected Barack Obama president just 10 years ago , another sign that Georgia is becoming the modern tableau of the country’s demographic change.
