Editing Fannin County, Georgia (section)

==Politics==
Historically, Fannin County was a massive outlier in Georgia. As an entirely white highland county historically devoid of [[Slavery in the United States|slaves]], it is one of the few ancestrally Republican counties in a state that was heavily Democratic nationally until the 1960s, and at other levels, well into the 1990s. Since the 1870s, it has been solidly Republican, displaying voting patterns similar to those of [[East Tennessee]]. As a result, in [[1968 United States presidential election|1968]], it was one of eight counties in Georgia where [[George Wallace]] came in third.  Fannin was the only county in the [[Deep South]] that never voted for [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]; in 1936, it was the only county in Georgia that voted for [[Alf Landon]]. 

Only three Democrats have won an absolute majority in the county since the Civil War: [[Samuel J. Tilden]] in 1876, [[William Jennings Bryan]] in 1900, and Georgia native [[Jimmy Carter]] in 1976, when he carried every county in his home state. Besides Carter, [[Woodrow Wilson]] was the only Democrat to win even a plurality of the county's vote in the 20th century. [[Bill Clinton]] is the last Democrat to win even 40 percent of the county's vote; he, Carter, [[Lyndon Johnson]] and [[Harry Truman]] are the only Democrats since FDR to cross that barrier.

The current county government consists of a three-member county commission consisting of a chairman and commissioners representing two posts.

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