Carter's conduct after the election sharply contrasts with the compromises of the campaign. His inaugural address declared that the time for racial discrimination was over. He also merged roughly 300 Georgia state agencies into 22 organizations. The financial savings can be disputed, but the change clearly reduced the number of departmental leadership structures. The example joins systems-minded government reform with the civil-rights position Carter had muted during the race.
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From campaign compromise to administrative consolidation
Once elected, Carter paired an anti-discrimination inaugural message with a systems-minded consolidation of Georgia's state agencies.