History made as black Democrat wins Senate race in deep red Mississippi

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Scott Colom won Mississippi’s Senate race for the Democrats, flipping a state that has traditionally been strongly Republican. He is set to become the first Black man to represent Mississippi in the Senate since Reconstruction.

Democrat Scott Colom will be the next US senator for Mississippi, flipping a traditionally deep red state and becoming the first black man to hold that office since the Reconstruction more than 150 years ago.