Beliefs that being gifted or a genius lead to being weird, socially awkward, or more likely to suffer from mental illnesses, were put to rest by

Terman's Longitudinal Study of 1528 Gifted Children

Explanation:

According to Lewis Terman's research, even though highly gifted children who did not experience skipping school grades found it difficult to socialize with children of similar IQ levels, the rest of the children who did go through educational acceleration actually became satified adults. In fact, in general they feel contented about their personal, social and professional lives, which proves that being gifted or genius does not necessarily lead to social difficulties or mental issues.

apart from being against desegregation, governor of georgia eugene talmadge opposed as well to the work progress administration, an ambitious program of the "new deal" created by president franklin d. roosevelt to overcome the great depression after world war i. talmadge disagreed with welfare spending, job training and organized labor. according to his ideas, he thought the government was spending too much money on this, and he wasn't willing to accept a wage higher than georgia's lower average wage. besides, talmadge strongly opposed to the "new deal" as he thought it had communist ideas.