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ATHENS — You could call Georgia’s 10th Congressional District race the clash of the activists.

On one side is Ken Dious, a Democrat and a longtime civil rights attorney. He marched against the Ku Klux Klan and segregation in Athens in the 1960s.

On the other side is Jody Hice, a Republican and former Baptist minister from Monroe. He fought for a Ten Commandments display in the Barrow County Courthouse and wrote a book about his Christian worldview and his plan to save America from “cultural erosion.”

Dious, the underdog in the race, has gone on the attack by highlighting some of Hice’s controversial statements about same-sex marriage and women serving in politics. Hice is brushing off the criticism, saying Dious is “out of touch” with the needs of the vast 10th District, which stretches from eastern Gwinnett County to the Savannah River.

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