Shifting Georgia: A look at 5 of the Peach State's purplest districts

Georgia isn't blue or red. Vast portions of the state, from peanut country in rural South Georgia to the fast-growing Atlanta suburbs, are a purply stew.

And those sections — call them the swingiest of Georgia’s swing districts — could decide not only the state’s tight presidential race but also the elections down the ballot.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution visited five state House districts scattered across Georgia where the race for the White House seems the tightest.

Read about each one below:

• The district that President Jimmy Carter still calls home, where Democrats have gradually morphed into Republicans.

• A Middle Georgia district that President Barack Obama won by a whisker in 2012 and is now represented by the lone independent in the Georgia Legislature.

• A majority-black district in southwest Georgia that sends a conservative Republican back to the statehouse every two years.