Hillary Clinton has a goal in mind that should keep Republicans up awake at night. Clinton wants to break one of the last geographic Republican strongholds in the United States. If Clinton could win North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, and Georgia, she would cut into the heart of the GOP’s base of support.

Could Clinton make Georgia competitive in 2016? The state’s minority population is growing rapidly. In the last decade, Georgia’s minority population has gone from 37%-44%. Eighty-one percent of the state’s population growth has come from minorities. Blacks and Hispanics account for Georgia’s population growth, and those two groups of voters are why the Clinton campaign seems to be gearing up to make a serious push to win Georgia.

Southern Democratic voters have been looked down upon especially by Northern and Western progressives as the country has become more partisan, but these Democrats are laying the groundwork for a titanic political shift that may as soon as November see a formerly solidly red state like Georgia turn blue.