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George Chidi in Pine Lake, Georgia

A polarized America goes to the polls: ‘I’m in a house divided’

people outside a wooden building
People line up to vote on election day as a polling site opens in Pine Lake, Georgia. Photograph: Ben Rollins/The Guardian

America had previously always been “somebody else’s country,” said Christopher La Rose, a health researcher, as he waited just before 7am in Pine Lake, a village that’s too small for postal delivery just outside of Atlanta, Georgia.

But that changed recently for La Rose, who is of Guyanese descent, when he became an American citizen. He had the jitters on Monday night, before using his first-ever vote in a US election to back Kamala Harris.

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