The Georgia General Assembly supported resistance to desegregation in different ways. One of them was to strengthen the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern states. A curious way of resisting was the state flag of Georgia from 1956 to 2001 that was meant to show resistance to integration. The GA flag was changed again in 2004 into something similar to the flag before 1956.
The major advantage is that the states have their own right to choose which laws will apply to them and in what way, based on their own interpretation of the laws.
