There’s A Mississippi The National Media Rarely Talks About. Scott Colom’s Win Put It On Display.
A HuffPost Voices opinion essay argues that Democrat Scott Colom's Senate win over Cindy Hyde-Smith — making him Mississippi's first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction — was predictable, not astonishing, built on years of Black organizing, competitive races like Brandon Presley's and Mike Espy's, and demographic reality. The author says national coverage reduces Mississippi to a caricature, discouraging investment such as the DSCC's omission of the state from a $40 million initiative, and urges journalists to scrutinize ballot access and voter suppression as closely as results.
