The governor 's office of the state of Georgia was continuously occupied by Democrats for 131 years .
Eric Foner , `` A Short History of Reconstruction : 1863–1877 '' , New York : Harper & Row Publishers , 1990 , p. 249 Nowhere was this more true than Georgia , where an unbroken line of Democrats occupied the governor 's office for 131 years , a period of dominance that only came to an end in 2003.In the aftermath of the Compromise of 1877 , Southern Democrats held the South 's black community under increasingly tight control .
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