Scott Colom Flips Mississippi Becoming 1st Black Person Since The 19 Century To Be Seated In The US Senate From The State [VIDEO]

Big up’s are in order as the count is over, the Mississippi flip is official with historic ramifications, as Democrat Scott Colom has won the US Senate race in Mississippi, delivering a shock victory for the party in a deeply conservative state that has elected Republicans for decades.  Scott Colom’s victory makes him the 1st Democrat as well as black person from Mississippi to be seated in the US Senate since Republican Blanche Bruce served from 1875 to 1881.

The last Democrat to be elected senator in the state of Mississippi, was John C. Stennis, who won his sixth full and final term in 1982. Scott Colom will be the third Black man to serve as a Mississippi senator after Republicans Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce during Reconstruction.

Scott Colom now joins several other Democrats who flipped seats in deep-red states, including Texas’ James Talarico, Kansas’ Adam Hamilton and South Carolina’s Annie Andrews. Democrats have so far flipped eight Senate seats to win control of the chamber, overcoming a difficult Senate map and giving them their largest majority in the chamber since 2011.

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