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Scott Colom elected Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction
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Source: The Columbian
WASHINGTON — Democrat Scott Colom has unseated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction. The result is a stunning flip for Democrats in a deep-red state where they last won a Senate election in 1982, and it brings the Senate Democratic caucus to at least 55 seats in the next Congress.
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