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The town of Monroe, Georgia, is home to views on everything from education to vaccines that are untethered from facts

It's a gray afternoon, promising rain and with temperatures in the 50s, people have taken their jackets out of the closet.

The streets of downtown Monroe, Georgia, a town of about 14,000 residents 45 miles due east of Atlanta, are quiet for a Saturday. It's the county seat of Walton county and a monument honoring Confederate veterans stands tall outside the county courthouse. The soldier carved from granite looks across Broad Street to the town's police station and is flanked to the south by the Walton Tribune's office and a district office for representative Jody Hice.