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Not until it is honest to give eight ounces for a pound and only fifty cents for a dollar can the county unit system be anything but deception and fraud.
—Editorial in the Atlanta Journal, 1917 The late Georgia Politician Eugene Talmadge used to say that he didn't care if he never carried any county that was big enough to have a streetcar. And he had good reason to feel that way: by aiming his appeal at the back-country farms and hamlets, rough-cut "01' Gene" got himself elected Governor four times. So solid...
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