[JohnnyZ]

District 70 is a Republican district. It's great that good black candidates like Everson are going ahead and running for office. We should definitely push this guy along!

There are 3 "posts" in district 70, so they have three reps; not quite sure how that works.

[JohnnyZ]

Local politics black Republican ping.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"If he wins, Everson will be the first black Republican in state government, a milestone former U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma achieved in Congress in 1994."

"The Army veteran said he is excited to be a pioneer if he becomes the first black Republican,"

Who the hell wrote this article ? Everson will NOT be the first Black Republican in GA state government, there were many who served during the Reconstruction period. J.C. Watts was not the first Black Republican in the U.S. House, either. J.C. was the 25th to serve (excluding a few others who were disgracefully denied their seats during Reconstruction), and he joined Congressman Gary Franks, who preceeded J.C. by 4 years. GA elected one Black Republican in 1870 to Congress, Jefferson Franklin Long, but he served only about a year. They haven't elected any others since, though. A very sloppy article. Black 'Rats in the South, BTW, are a very recent occurance (after the early 1960s), they were almost uniformally Republican 30 years after their Northern brethren bolted the party.