A year ago, Georgia was one of four states that had no hate crime legislation. But the deadly rampage last week that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent, is now providing a test of a law passed last year — and a window into the way that the state’s increasingly diverse electorate has altered its political and cultural chemistry.

Why some Georgia lawmakers want last week’s shootings labelled hate crimes

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Why some Georgia lawmakers want last week’s shootings labelled hate crimes