Black voters could sway the midterms in surprising places
Heather Digby Parton's Salon column argues that a "Blacklash" of record early voting by Black voters could decide Senate races in unexpected Southern states — Scott Colom's tightened Mississippi race against Cindy Hyde-Smith, Louisiana's tied contest between Jamie Davis and Julia Letlow, and Darline Graham's South Carolina seat, where a New York Times report shows Black voters at 28 percent of early votes. Tracing the gutting of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais and a history from Reconstruction to Jim Crow, she predicts the states that redrew their districts may come to regret it.
