In Carter’s Georgia

Year after year now, a drive into George feels like a visit to the Mecca of political ideals. Georgia hasn’t leaned Democratic in a long time, yet its most famous presidential resident is Jimmy Carter, someone whose poor reputation as a president left room for the Reagan steamroll, but whose stellar reputation in the forty years afterward have cemented him as the great humanitarian, much in the likes of Herbert Hoover, another single term president whose gifts were not political, but service-oriented.