It is difficult to tell. When I think that the people of Georgia elected Jimmy Carter as their governor even though he spent three years at three different colleges and then four years at the US Naval Academy to earn a bachelor’s degree and he spent four years at Union College in a doctoral program without earning a master’s degree, I would suspect the people of Georgia may not be that bright. But then the people of the United States elected him president so it seems the people of Georgia have a lot of company.
Georgia was in large part settled by impoverished people from the slums of England. Unlike the Scots settlers, they were very poorly suited to pioneer life and died by the thousands. Georgia government is also recognized as the least transparent, most corrupt government in the country, although there are a few states closely following in that dept. Having lived all over the country, including Georgia, and to me Georgia was the worst in terms of public corruption. Check out the abuse of the prison and parole/probation systems and the egregious history of lynch mobs. I have met, however, many, many fine Georgia citizens who deserve better.