Although this article does provide the author's opinion and some anecdotal evidence from his time spent living in Georgia, there is helpful data and statistics throughout the piece that help support his argument. It would have been a better article had author Zak Cheney-Rice just presented the facts and let them speak for themselves, but overall I left feeling better off for having read it.

This is clearly an op ed, and is labeled as such. With all things considered, it is a well written op ed that cites some relevant data points regarding statistics of local constituency; however, this is all anecdotal.