ATLANTA — For Zeucis Martinez, life in northwest Georgia has meant straddling two different majorities.
A Venezuelan immigrant who settled in Dalton in the 1980s, Martinez feels at home among the Latin American diaspora that transformed the “carpet capital of the world” into Georgia’s largest majority-Hispanic town, with 51% of residents identifying as Latino for the 2020 U.S. census.
Martinez is also Republican, and part of the electorate that two years ago helped President Donald Trump win with 70% of the vote in Whitfield County, where Dalton sits in far northwest Georgia.
