Democratic nominee Scott Colom has defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction.
Colom’s narrow victory is a seismic shift in Mississippi, which has been controlled mostly by white conservatives for generations, and it will echo through the country as well. The outcome adds to a decisive midterm rebuke of President Donald Trump, whose party suffered defeats in several Republican-controlled states, and it will bolster some Democrats’ argument that their future runs through the American South.
Damn, that’s brutal. Sorry for picking on you Mississippi, the reasons your government sucks are complicated and difficult to solve, largely because the power structures are so well entrenched at this point. It’s a similar situation up here in TN. I know a lot of y’all are cool. Apparently, as of recently, just over half :)
It’s brutal, but note that throughout the article, particularly in terms of education, the only path forward for Mississippi is up.
And they’ve seriously improved on education. Once you do that, the other things start to fall in place. Think about it like this: if you were 5 at the start of the Mississippi Miracle, you might have just cast your first vote for a US senator.
Educated voters consistently vote left.
That’s cool. Makes me hopeful that we can pull off something similar. Now we got GA, TX, KY, the carolinas, and MS making us look bad. We gotta get with the program.