A Democratic Ground Game Reshaped the Political Map of the South
Bloomberg reports that years of Democratic organizing since Stacey Abrams' narrow 2018 Georgia loss reshaped the 2026 midterms across the South: Scott Colom unseated Cindy Hyde-Smith to become Mississippi's first Black US senator since the early 1880s, Keisha Lance Bottoms won Georgia's governorship, and Annie Andrews took a South Carolina Senate seat. Organizers like Jakari Holland's Mississippi Access Project and Fair Fight say the groundwork turned record Black turnout into wins, though Mississippi's restrictive voting rules still forced Jackson State students to cure ballots at a circuit clerk's office.
