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.
Mississippi Goddamn! (I do think even Nina Simone would be pleased.) Well done!
Congratulations and the best of luck to Mississippi Senator-elect Scott Colom!
I was born in Pascagoula. I think of myself as Texan because I have one single memory of Mississippi before we moved to Texas, before my 3rd birthday. But I still have family there.
…Family I’ve had to block after they threatened “we have the guns and know where you liberals live”, mind. I love Natchez where I have family… or at least, I used to love until I couldn’t take the racism and tea party bullshit. I’ve mourned the loss of that part of my history since.
I don’t feel like I have my state back, but I am proud of what Mississippi has accomplished this election cycle. And let’s be frank, it was the blacks. Thank you, my fellow Americans - my real Americans. I want to be, like, slightly racial (not racist) and say - hey, I liked Obama as President. I’m happy to have more blacks representing us. And more latino/latina, more from all over who are American like me. <3 <3 <3
(now, just ignore the stupid religious text on there)
Thank god for Mississippi
Now there’s a sentence I never thought I’d read here.
Half the reason I said it is because this is the first time I’ve been able to say it without the snark in my life
This is huge.
So proud of Mississippi, you all did so good against horrible tactics to tip the favor red.
are we tackling the tactics? the fight has only begun…
Internet friends, what is the black population of Mississippi? Why hasn’t this happened in 150 years? It isn’t the black population…
It’s Gerry’s fault. Gerry Mander.
And Gerry’s friend Ray. Ray Cism.
Senate elections are statewide races, so gerrymanders don’t (directly) apply.
It’s full on suppression and disenfranchisement in much of the south, but ESPECIALLY Mississippi, there are part of the delta that feel like it’s still 1830.
Not coincidentally, 150 years ago is about when the union army ended the last of its occupation of the southern states.
🎉 🥳 🎈 🎈 🎈 🥂 Woo hoo!
Splish splosh
This will be fun in the next election’s primaries, when neolibs are trying to tell us who can and can’t win an election, especially in the South.
