
This looks like it’ll be decided by just a handful of votes. Democratic challenger Scott Colom is ahead by 65 votes in the latest count in this Deep Red State.

This looks like it’ll be decided by just a handful of votes. Democratic challenger Scott Colom is ahead by 65 votes in the latest count in this Deep Red State.
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Apparently the last Democratic senator from Mississippi was John C. Stennis, but his entry into office predated the Civil Rights Act and the Southern Strategy and party realignment; he was a product of the Fifth Party System.
The second most recent was James Eastland, and it looks like the same sort of thing applies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eastland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Stennis