Georgia’s legislature chose Maddox over Callaway for partisan reasons.

Evidence

In the end, confronted with the choice of Lester Maddox or what would have been the first Republican governor since Reconstruction, the overwhelmingly Democratic legislature swallowed hard and went with the Democrat, by a vote of 182 to 62. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 522

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White backlash against the Civil Rights Act delivered the South to the Republican Party — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 519