George County was named after Senator James Z. George and was formed on March 16, 1910, from parts of land formerly included in Jackson and Greene Counties.[3]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 484 square miles (1,250km2), of which 479 square miles (1,240km2) is land and 4.9 square miles (13km2) (1.0%) is water.[4]
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 24,350 people, 7,592 households, and 5,309 families residing in the county.
Politics
The county has gone solidly Republican in the last ten Presidential elections.[12] In past Presidential elections third-party candidates sometimes did well here. In 1968George Wallace won the county with over 90 percent of the vote,[13] which was the second highest percentage he received in any county. In 1988 the county gave David Duke 4.21%, his best performance in the nation.[14] In that election it also gave more support to Lenora Fulani than she received in most of the nation. In 2012, President Obama only received 14 percent of the vote,[15] and Hillary Clinton received barely ten percent in 2016[16] In 2020, George County was only one of two counties that voted against replacing the state flag. The other was neighbouring Greene County.
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