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Mary Ellen McIntire

FOUND: Colom elected mississippis first black senator since reconstruction | Mind Blowing Facts

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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