. 16.2 References Aaron History, 1880 1,542,181 30.2% As of 2010 87.35% (7,666,663) of Georgia residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a primary language while 7.42% (651,583) spoke Spanish 0.51% (44,702) Korean 0.44% (38,244) Vietnamese 0.42% (36,679) French 0.38% (33,009) Chinese (which includes Mandarin) and German which was spoken as a main language by 0.29% (23,351) of the population over the age of five in total 12.65% (1,109,888) of Georgia's population age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English. 1996 Summer Olympics, Vacancies 11 References Atlanta Falcons American football National Football League Mercedes-Benz Stadium Atlanta *In 2012 voters in Macon and Bibb County approved the consolidation of the City of Macon and unincorporated Bibb County; they officially merged on January 1 2014 Macon joined Columbus Augusta and Athens as consolidated cities in Georgia. . Fri 27th With white Democrats having regained power in the state legislature they passed a poll tax in 1877 which disenfranchised many poor blacks and whites preventing them from registering in 1908 the state established a white primary; with the only competitive contests within the Democratic Party it was another way to exclude blacks from politics They constituted 46.7% of the state's population in 1900 but the proportion of Georgia's population that was African American dropped thereafter to 28% primarily due to tens of thousands leaving the state during the Great Migration According to the Equal Justice Institute's 2015 report on lynching in the United States (1877-1950) Georgia had 531 deaths the second-highest total of these extralegal executions of any state in the South the overwhelming number of victims were black and male Political disfranchisement persisted through the mid-1960s until after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. .
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