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[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, two is more likely. Conservatives in Georgia have pretty effectively kept control of government at the state level. And the State Constitution gives state government a high level of control over counties and cities.

There was a pretty dramatic example of it recently. A school board in one of the Atlanta Metro counties tried to get stingy with a proportionally whiter, more conservative high school. They got swatted down by the state Superintendent of Education, an official elected by the entire state.

[–]RedEyedWarrior 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good point. I’d put away €100 that those two children were adopted out of state. Yes, the state of Georgia allows gay couples to adopt children, but I’m almost certain that they have more robust background checks in place. Meanwhile, you have states like New York and California, where a good proportion of their orphans actually had homes but the governments took them away because the parents did something the state governments didn’t like.