Opinion | In Georgia, Harris Supporters Pull Together and Fight the Odds

The Republicans of Forsyth County, Ga., deep in Trump country, have a peculiar problem: More and more of their white neighbors are voting for Democrats.Forsyth County, about 40 miles north of Atlanta, was until the 1990s a whites-only suburb.Democrats don’t hold a single elected office.But these days, some white residents are canvassing for Kamala Harris.

They are joining forces with South Asians who have also moved to the area, and together reviving the county Democratic Party.In 2016, “we had $300 and seven likes on our Facebook page,” Melissa Clink, the former chair of the Forsyth County Democratic Committee, told me.Many of them grew up somewhere else, like Jessica Fleming, a magazine editor from New York City who has had the gall to run for a seat on the county school board in the current election.

“Don’t throw away your vote on a New York liberal transplant, stand with our local law enforcement!” read one text message about Ms.Fleming sent to voters in the county.Donald Trump will almost certainly win a majority of white voters in Georgia; polls show him with a small edge in the state overall.

And Forsyth County is not a battleground, yet.But in a deadlocked presidential race, even a small shift in a white-majority county could provide critical votes for Democrats in Georgia.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.

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