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    In his hometown, Jimmy Carter unites Trump supporters and Democrats. To a point

    by Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times Nov 27, 2019 5 minutes

    PLAINS, Ga. - As mayor of the tiny Georgia town of Plains, L.E. "Boze" Godwin III is a Republican who presides over a living shrine to one of the South's most famed Democrats.

    Just behind City Hall, the old train depot that operated as Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign headquarters is a museum festooned with a large 1970s banner proclaiming "Jimmy Carter! for president."

    In the shadow of Carter's old peanut processing plant, tourists stroll the one-block retail downtown strip and pick up peanut butter ice cream and peanut-shaped earrings, vintage Carter campaign buttons and bobblehead dolls. They visit Jimmy Carter's high school and the Jimmy Carter Boyhood Farm.

    They can even find the 95-year-old Carter live in person, teaching Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church.

    Godwin's pride in his town's connection to the nation's 39th president shows no sign of ebbing now that Carter is the longest-lived president in

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