| Mississippi elects Democratic senator in major upset for GOP: CNN The last Democrat to represent Mississipi in the United States Senate, John Stennis, was a staunch segregationist. Now, more than three decades after Stennis left office, an African American district attorney named Scott Colom has become the first Democrat to serve Mississippi in the Senate since the Cold War, CNN reports. Running against incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Colom is a northern Mississippi district attorney who was obscure outside his home state prior to being thrust into the national limelight. Mississippi is an overwhelmingly Republican state where Hyde-Smith served a single term as senator and wished to serve a second one. Raised in a privileged family and attending a segregated private school in Mississippi, Hyde-Smith was a career politician who developed a rivalry with Colom after she blocked the Democrat's nomination to a federal judgeship. |
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