This question is abt the book to kill a mockingbird. if u have read it plz answer! : )

as she thinks back on the events of the summer tom robinson was killed, scout muses, “there was one off thing, though, that i never understood: in spite of atticus’s shortcomings as a parent, people were content to re-elect him to the state legislature that year, as usual, without opposition”(279). why is the fact that atticus was re-elected without opposition significant? what does it say about the values of the community?