Author: Charles Hayslett
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Are guns and abortion coming home to haunt Gov. Kemp?
(This is my latest column written for the Georgia Trust for Local News. Starting September 19, 20204, it is being published in more than 20 daily and weekly papers in Middle and South Georgia. — CH) On Monday, one of Georgia’s two U.S. senators, Democrat Jon Ossoff, conducted a hearing in Decatur on the impact…
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How Georgia’s 2024 Presidential Race May Have More to Do with Brian Kemp than Donald Trump
[My friends at The Daily Yonder asked me to write a piece on the presidential race in Georgia. It follows below.] By Charles Hayslett, The Daily YonderSeptember 18, 2024 Several political eons ago – by which I mean July – it seemed likely Georgia would skate through the 2024 presidential race without again being the…
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Kicking off the Harris-Walz campaign in South Georgia
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and a good editorial cartoon is worth a couple of zillion. Commercial artist extraordinaire Trevor Irvin took a couple of suggestions I made in my last couple of TIGC posts and turned them into an editorial cartoon that would have made the late Jack Davis proud. Suggestion…
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Harris and Walz take a cue from TIGC, head to South Georgia
Well, dang. Who knew Kamala Harris and Tim Walz read “Trouble in God’s Country”? Actually, they almost certainly don’t. But it’s one heck of a coincidence that they announced a South Georgia bus tour less than a week after TIGC suggested exactly that. Well, not exactly that. I recommended putting Coach Walz (and members of…
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Can Coach Walz get the Democrats back in the game in rural Georgia?
(Note: About three months ago, I started writing a weekly “Trouble in God’s Country” column that now runs in about 30 daily and weekly papers, mostly in South Georgia. As a result of that work, however, I’ve been a little distracted from my usual TIGC research, but I’m trying to get back to that now.…
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The TIGC 2022 Georgia county rankings: Per Capita Income
This is the second in a series of posts ranking Georgia counties by various socioeconomic measures. About a week ago I did an initial post ranking the counties based on their population growth over the past three years. Now I’m shifting to economics. In this post, I’ll look at per capita income (PCI), but I’m…
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Introducing the TIGC Georgia county rankings. First up: Population
This is the first in a series of pieces ranking Georgia’s 159 counties by various measures. I’m starting with population and will follow up with rankings for various economic, educational attainment and population health metrics, possibly among others. Eventually I’ll combine all those individual rankings into what I’ll call the TIGC Power Rankings. One of…
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CDC and AJC confirm what TIGC has been telling you for years: rural Georgians are dying younger than their urban cousins
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution led Wednesday morning’s print edition with a story headlined “Georgians in rural areas more likely to die early.” The story was based on a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). I’m glad to see my long-ago employer covering this issue, but it’s not exactly like this…
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More than half of Georgia’s counties in bottom national quartile for health outcomes
One of the things I’ve been working on lately is a piece ranking all 159 Georgia counties nationally on a range of socioeconomic measures. The last chunk of data I needed was the 2024 release from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHRR). That report hit the web on March 24th, and I’ve decided it merits…