"Before his speech, his supporters danced and embraced. One of them declared, 'Thank the Lord, we did it.'... During the campaign, Mr. Colom... did not often dwell on the historic implications of his candidacy, but [he] took time on Wednesday to talk about the legacy he would now continue in Washington. Mississippi was the first state to send a Black person to Congress, Hiram Revels, who joined the Senate in 1870. He was followed by Blanche Bruce in 1875, who was born in slavery in 1841. Mr. Bruce was replaced by a white former Confederate soldier who disavowed the ideals of racial equality and ushered in segregationist policies...."
From "Scott Colom, a Democrat, Wins Mississippi Senate Seat in Historic Upset/Mr. Colom, a prosecutor, will be the first Black senator elected from Mississippi since the post-Civil War Reconstruction period" (NYT).
It should be noted that Colom graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
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It only took 8 days to find the votes this time.
Keep believing that crap.
Colm got elected for two reasons. First, 1/3 of Mississippi is black and they voted as a bloc for Colm. African American women voted for him by an insane 99-1 ratio. With AA men it was 90-10.
Second, Hyde-smith was a terrible candidate who ran a terrible campaign. And wasn't much of a Senator. She wasn't a Trump supporter but laid low and didn't say much in public. A Democrat till 2010, she was appointed by the Governor to the Senate in 2018. She's been invisible ever since.
Not sure why she was appointed. But it certainly wasn't her speech making skills. She supposedly spoke for only a couple minutes when Trump held a rally for her. And then there's the "Eat another Protein" gaffe.
"It should be noted that Colom graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School."
America, beware! It's all part of Althouse's cunning plan.
Blanche Bruce was a Republican. So was Hiram Revels. Bruce was replaced by James George, a Democrat, after the Democrats took control of the state legislature. In those days senators were chosen by state legislatures.
It only took 8 days to find the votes this time.
Can you even fucking read. It didn't take "8 days," it took the Dems one hundred and fifty (150) years!
Stay gold, Ponyboy.
"First" since the previous guy who was not himself the "first" - does it ever end?
Elections be getting rigged in Mississippi and in Kansas and in Iowa and in South Carolina and in all the red states. 🤦
Cope more, crybaby. You lost. Take your "L" and figure out how to start winning again. You will not pout and cry your way out of your electoral crisis.
Mr. Bruce was replaced by a white former Confederate soldier who disavowed the ideals of racial equality ...."
LOL. Thanks for explaining that NYTs. The white Mississippians had just fought a 4 year war and almost 1/4 of all the white men 18-45 had been killed. The survivors had no intention of being ruled by Republicans or blacks.
Why the NYT's wants to do this trip down memory lane is beyond me.
Heh. The Lord had nothing to do with it.
As someone noted above, this time election results have been released presto, except those that needed adjusting at the last minute.
@ DD,
Mississippi Dems weren't looking for the votes to send blacks to Washington for 150 years. Quite the contrary.
Southern Democrats were segregationists. They actively and sometimes brutally repressed Black voting and Black candidates after reconstruction and this continued up through the civil rights era of the 60's.
He's the first black person elected since the last black person elected? My, that IS historic!
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Quite the contrary.
Southern Democrats were segregationists. They actively and sometimes brutally repressed Black voting and Black candidates after reconstruction and this continued up through the civil rights era of the 60's.
Are we going to skip the part where the Southern Democrats became Republicans? Nifty!
It's cool when you get to write your own history and skip over the parts you don't like and don't serve your narrative.
Why celebrate 'black' (or female) achievement if it's NOT OK to celebrate white achievement.
Curiously, if a black person randomly murders people, his race is often not disclosed by the media (some even have a no-mugshot policy).
Racist bastards, if you ask me. Name and achievement only might make everyone less race obsessed.
'Are we going to skip the part where the Southern Democrats became Republicans? Nifty!"
Not at all. Tell me about it.
Congratulations to Donald Trump for making this possible.
He will fall in line with the obedient left and offer nothing for his constituents. sadly.
"It's cool when you get to write your own history and skip over the parts you don't like and don't serve your narrative."
Which is exactly what the NYT did in the linked article.
Bob Boyd- I honestly don't have the time, but here is a primer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
"Are we going to skip the part where the Southern Democrats became Republicans?"
In the 60's, right? Which is what I said in my comment above.
How much time does it take to just say, "You're right. I was wrong"?
The Iran war cost the Republicans bigley.
Everything is a civil rights issue for liberals and progressives, so it's not at all surprising that they frame this election historically. Everything has to be a historic "first" (or "first since Reconstruction") for liberals and progressives, so there's no surprise there.
Ed Brooke, the first Black senator since Reconstruction received similar treatment in the 1960s (Brooke was a Republican, though an unorthodox one by today's standards). The first African American congressman since Reconstruction and his successor the first African American congressman ever didn't get that treatment in the 1920s and 1930s. White America wasn't paying attention. It was a very different era.
In the 60's, right? Which is what I said in my comment above
I missed the part where you said the Southern Democrats didn't just stop their ways, instead they just became Republicans who nurtured and encouraged their racism.
My deepest apologies if I missed that part.
Everything is about race with the left. He was the better (sic) candidate, but that wasn't hard.
Speaking of firsts, I saw constant ads for the NH Senate race including the Sununu ad saying that Pappas voted on Amazon-related issues while he was dating an Amazon lobbyist. One of the ads mentioned that he married the lobbyist. Now I find out that Pappas is the first openly gay man elected to the Senate. Was Sununu hinting about that, or have we reached the point where gay and straight don't matter in politics, or did I just miss a lot of media coverage.
Congratulations to Mr. Colom for his victory. I see he was a graduate of Wisconsin Law. So he may know something about Constitutional Law but probably not much else. I also see he was a prosecutor — please tell me he wasn’t a Soros prosecutor.
Yes, many Southern Democrats became Republicans -- for long time only in presidential races -- but early Southern Republicans were outsiders and "new men" from outside the segregationist political system.
The Deep South states voted over 90% for FDR. Republicans had to come from somewhere and if they weren't transplants from the North, they had been Democrats, but the hardline segregationists were Democrats and remained Democrats for decades.
Strom Thurmond being one of the few exceptions.
It would have been preferable not to have had slavery in the United States. All of the people responsible for that should be punished severely.
How does that support your statement that Mississippi Democrats were looking for votes to send Blacks to Washington for 150 years? Now you're saying these Dems opposed Black candidates all along and even switched to being Republicans so they could continue to oppose Black candidates, which totally contradicts your initial statement and supports what I pointed out.
Just admit you were wrong. That's the respectable thing to do.
Diversity.
Bloc Lives Matter
As the South became more industrialized and more middle class, it turned Republican.
The South became more Republican after the Civil Rights successes destroyed overt segregation and the Democrats embraced minorities. The rust belt became more Republican after the factories were shuttered and the Democrats abandon the working class.
NPK: Because Americans root for the underdogs.
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As the capitol of North Mississippi, we got a lot of ads and texts from both candidates. Colom pushed his church-going and religious faith; I don't recall anything much from Hyde-Smith on that issue (but I wasn't paying close attention either).
Harold Ford Jr's dad was elected to Congress in 1974, and much was made of his being the first black congresscritter from Tennessee since Reconstruction.
The only problem with that description was that Tennessee--unlike most ex-Rebel states--never elected blacks to national office during Reconstruction.
Last Out, First In had its advantages for the Dems.
Sorry. Courageous? really?
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Perhaps you shouldn't simplify complex issues and perspectives. Wallace, Maddox, and Faubus remained Democrats as did Nunn and Bentsen. J Carter won the Governorship by using racial and class prejudices against Atlanta based Black political powers.
Grok laughs at DDD believing the myth of the great switch:
Key numbers on elected officials
Of the ~20–21 Southern Democratic senators who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, only one later served in Congress as a Republican: Strom Thurmond of South Carolina (switched in September 1964). The other 20 remained Democrats for the rest of their congressional careers (or were replaced by other Democrats). Those seats took, on average, another ~25 years to flip Republican.
Across the broader period 1947–2010, the Voteview congressional database identifies only 16 Southern members of Congress (from the 11 former Confederate states) who served first as Democrats and later as Republicans. This includes:
2 senators: Strom Thurmond (1964) and Richard Shelby of Alabama (1994).
14 House members (examples include Phil Gramm of Texas in 1983).
Meanwhile, a media blackout on Florida's Governor-elect Byron Donalds.
Althouse, you've misspelled his tag.
And I can't believe you don't already have a tag for boinking subordinates, considering the reason the Paula Jones lawsuit went nuclear.
Lol at misspelling the new black senator's name.
No disrespect INTENDED just lazy like that.
She wouldn't have misspelled a jewish name, I'll bet 😉
Indeed, the Great Defection Theory of Southern politics is a fantasy, and one that serves to maximize the self-esteem of those who promote it.
As white Southerners became more educated and were exposed to the rest of the country and the world, they naturally began to shift to the Republicans; and many a Yankee Republican who moved south during and after WWII saw no reason to emulate the viciousness of the dominant Dems.
Ike was picking up Southern states in the mid-1950s, and Southern blacks who could vote (an important bloc in Memphis) voted R until the early 60s.
I apologize.
A Democrat replaced a Democrat in this election. Win for the republicans.
Democrats will not clear 45% nationally in an election with voter ID purple thumbs same day paper ballots like everyone else in the world does.
Democrats cannot win without a month to gather mail in ballots.
Period.
"A Democrat replaced a Democrat in this election."
Purification through subtraction.
Hyde-Smith BLOCKED Scott Colom as a Judge. He Just Took Her Senate Seat —Grilled on the Hill - YouTube
In this visual age, Senator Hyde-Smith had ... limitations.
Would've got a black senator a lot sooner if not for:
- Obama's divisiveness;
- Trayvon and Floyd riots;
- War on Black Republicans;
- Third Way Dems destroying their own white working class bloc;
- Dem policies in general just not being very attractive. Swing voters stay away from Black Dems because of their party, not race. CC, JSM
Of the 11 ex-Confederate states, 7 voted for Liberal Adlai Stevenson in 1952. And 6 voted for him in 1956. And in 1960, Nixon got 3 states, 2 voted third party, and 6 voted for liberal JFK.
The entire South and Texas voted against McGovern, then all voted for Carter in 76. Georgia voted for a Republican in 1972 for the first time in 100 years.
And i dont care if the Senator from Mississippi is black, brown or purple. I'm sure blacks care - thats why they voted 90-10 for him. But there's no reason for me to care. Colm will be another Schumer robot and will do what he says, just like all the D senators do.
I'm shocked the NYT's didn't bring up Emmitt Till.
One day, when the D's control all 3 branches and ram through all their Leftwing legislation than maybe all the dummies who get a warm fuzzy about voting for a black man, or some other minority, will wake up and understand politics isn't a game.
But I think they'll have to be hit hard - personally - before that happens.
The Republicans currently control everything and what have they done?
When Katrina came through, the difference between Louisiana and Mississippi was that in Mississippi, if you have a million victims, you have a million volunteers. They may be changing that.
So we no longer believe that the Democrats rigged the election by systematic ballot stuffing or "changing the votes." The legitimacy costs of this sort of behavior are just too large. Instead are we blaming the media and ballot harvesting for the oddball results last week? Seriously, 20 million votes just appearing out of nowhere is a lot to believe. These extra 20 million are legit votes in the sense that these people exist, for the most part, though almost none of them would even bother to return a ballot in a normal election.
Good for Colom for graduating from the University of Wisconsin Law School. I was accepted at Wisconsin, but the out-of-state tuition was just too high for a working class kid like me from Iowa whose mother was a kindergarten teacher and whose father was a small-time Iowa farmer and insurance salesman. So I was accepted and enrolled in the University of Iowa Law School, which was pretty good at the time, and it gave me a rewarding and financially secure career. I am thankful for that. But since Constitution Law was one of my favorite courses (we had to take two semesters of it at Iowa), I often wonder what I may have learned even more if Althouse had been my Con Law professor.
Carter lost big in 1980, but he almost carried Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Arkansas (and of course he won Georgia). The Civil War lasted a very long time.
Whatever one's political preference, I think Cindy Hyde-Smith deserves credit for her prompt and gracious concession.That's the kind of response we should expect from our elected officials and it's worth recognizing when we see it.
DD: Jimmy Carter wasn’t as outspoken about racial politics on the campaign trail during his second run for governor in 1970, but after winning the race, he made his then-controversial position on integration clear.
“The time for racial discrimination is over,” Carter declared on the steps of the Georgia State Capitol after becoming the state’s 76th governor. “No poor, rural, weak, or Black person should ever have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity of an education, a job, or simple justice.”
Outgoing Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has picked a protein.
She’s gonna eat…crow.
Believe in it? I've seen Mississippi with my own eyes.
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