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In reply to the discussion: Georgia’s Republican governor won’t endorse town’s first racially integrated prom [View all]Sunlei
(22,651 posts)you can still see in the census the continued non-whites not welcome. That county started by getting rid of the Cherokees and then the 'free slaves' were next to get into prisons as 'slaves' or boot them out of the county.
""As of the census[6] of 2000, there were 141,903 people, 49,495 households, and 39,200 families residing in the county. The population density was 335 people per square mile (129/km²). There were 51,937 housing units at an average density of 123 per square mile (47/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 81.29% White, 5.44% Black or African American, 0.38% Native American, 2.06% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 2.61% from other races, and 1.29% from two or more races. 9.60% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.""
ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_County,_Georgia#Original_territory