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I for one never had expectations that the people of Mississippi would do the right thing. They pretty much lived up to their well earned reputation yesterday. The confederate symbol of stars and bars won't be coming off their official state flag for a very long time, if ever.
That's not what they were saying yesterday. It's 2018 and those comments were supposed to finish her off. Not sure how she made it. It came out late in the campaign that she actually sent her kids to a "Christian" school. I guess "suburban women" didn't show up. What a crock! It turned out there was NO difference in voting with or without a college degree either.
It was always uphill. Mississippi doesn't vote in blacks to government positions. Whites who talk about public hanging were always the incumbents.
It’s Mississippi. Of course she won. It’s the poorest red state. Maybe they wouldn’t be so poor if they could actually entice companies to come and add jobs. Their economy would grow. But no one wants to be associated with a racist state. That’s pretty sad. How much federal aid do you think they get.
I have two words for you. New Mexico. The bluest of the bue and yet at the bottom of the ladder in every social and economic metric. Well, except for making meth in RVs.
Ooh snap.
Yay for Hyde-Smith! Racism and Non-PC claims kept it from being a double digit win!
It was always uphill. Mississippi doesn't vote in blacks to government positions. ...........
Forty years ago, blacks held no public offices in Mississippi. The state in recent years has had more black elected officials than any other, most of them in local or school board posts. Voters have elected black mayors in Vicksburg, Jackson, Hattiesburg, Greenville and Natchez. https://ballotpedia.org/Mississippi_state_profile_2018
Forty years ago, blacks held no public offices in Mississippi. The state in recent years has had more black elected officials than any other, most of them in local or school board posts. Voters have elected black mayors in Vicksburg, Jackson, Hattiesburg, Greenville and Natchez. https://ballotpedia.org/Mississippi_state_profile_2018
"more black elected officials than any other"? yeah school boards and mayors of black majority towns. Yet, there hasn't been a black person elected to statewide office in Mississippi since reconstruction. So much for that amazing news listener
Considering Mississippi has the highest percentage of Blacks in any state at 38% it's rather shocking to me Dems can't muster up enough votes to beat almost any Republican.
It's shocking to you that a minority group in a proudly racist state can't muster a majority of votes? You must have taken math classes at a public school in Mississippi.
This election followed the national pattern where either the Democrat won or if the Republican won, it was by a narrower margin than in the past.
Trump won Miss. by 19. Hyde-Smith won by 8. That fits the pattern of Republican underperformance nationally.
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