"It's not a partisan issue." Coan said in February. "It's about right and wrong."

Republican Mike Coan co-sponosored legislation repealing Georgia's Jim Crow laws - something Georgia's Democrats never quite got around to (the 2005 session of the Georgia Legislature is the first time since Reconstruction that the GOP has had a majority in both Houses). Today, Governor Sonny Perdue (R) will sign the bill and Jim Crow will officially be dead.