HeyJaredTrouble in God's Country
A blog documenting the costs and consequences of the staggering decline of rural Georgia.
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Could it be that The Economist reads Trouble in God’s Country? (opens the original)
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Probably not, but the esteemed UK-based news magazine (it calls itself a newspaper, but it’s what we yanks think of as a magazine) is now up with a story that puts a national spotlight on a subject I wrote about last month: the fact that Republican counties are dying at a much higher rate than Democratic counties.In this piece, I focused of course on Georgia and wrote, among other things, that the death rate in the 132 counties that sided with Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election was 3
Today’s must-read: The AJC’s piece on the shifting balance of power between Atlanna and Notlanna (opens the original)
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I don’t think I’ve ever given a whole post to someone else’s story, but Greg Bluestein’s piece in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the shifting balance of power between Atlanna and Notlanna earns it. The story is here, though it may be behind the AJC’s paywall.The best line in it comes from Rick Dent, who was once Zell Miller’s press secretary and has since worked as a strategist for both Democrats and Republicans: “If you think it’s a
Rick Jackson’s campaign got front-page treatment for a healthcare plan with very few numbers. Here’s a little arithmetic. (opens the original)
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Tip your hat to whoever runs communications for Rick Jackson.On Tuesday, September 8, the Republican nominee for governor stood in a ballroom at the Westin Atlanta Perimeter and made a promise with an unmistakable cadence to it.“ … On day one,” Jackson pledged, “I will close the coverage gap with intelligent Medicaid expansion.”By Thursday morning that promise was on the front page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s ePaper — “Jackson outlines ‘intelligent Medicaid expansion’ idea.” Capitol Be
The AJC ranked Georgia “average” for education. That’s a grade that conceals more than it reveals (opens the original)
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The ePaper edition of Sunday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution led with a 2,000-word story under a headline that proclaimed: “Georgia schools are not the best, not the worst”. “By many metrics,” the story’s opening paragraphs told us, “Georgia’s K-12 education system ranks somewhere in the middle compared to other U.S. states. In academic achievement, <a href="https://www.ajc.com/education/2026/01/experts-georgia-must-spend-more-on-teacher-pay-mental-health-i
Go Forth and Subtract: A Progress Report on the Great Republican Fertility Advantage (opens the original)
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Back in 2019, a young up-and-comer in the Georgia Republican Party was predicting a bright future for his party on the grounds that God-fearing, conservative, Christian women would happily produce more babies than their godless Democratic counterparts.“Christian and conservative women have a 35 percent fertility advantage over Democrat women,” Brant Frost V, then the second vice chair of the state GOP, told a meeting of Oconee County Republicans. “And the more conservative a woman is, the more l
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