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.
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)