What year is this again?

Deep South Voice writes that the governor took to Twitter last weekend and said: “If Mike Espy and the liberal Democrats gain the senate we will take that first step into a thousand years of darkness.” Interesting word choice when describing the consequences of Mississippi electing its first black Senator in over 139 years.

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Mississippi has a very long and very violent history of racism. Six hundred black people were lynched between 1877 to 1950, the most of any state. Up until 2017, the state still had predominately segregated schools. This makes it all the more unsurprising that the governor believes Mike Espy being elected to the Senate would open the doors of Guf and bring about the fourth impact.

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Espy was an elected Congressman from 1987-1993 until President Clinton appointed him to US Secretary of Agriculture.

  The Root

Here you go:

Note to Mississippi voters

There are seven states more unhappy than Mississippi?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

The rare sight in Congress: A Republican woman

Saying the quiet part out loud, as you do if you're a Republican in the age of Trump.

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) appeared to endorse voter suppression during a campaign stop this month.

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Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the Senate in April following the retirement of Thad Cochran, faces Democrat Mike Espy in a Nov. 27 runoff election.

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“And then they remind me that there’s a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don’t want to vote,” Hyde-Smith can be heard telling a small crowd of young people outside her campaign bus in a video taken Nov. 3 and posted on online Thursday. “Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that’s a great idea.”

  HuffPo

What's wrong with that?

Yes, this is the same woman, whose opponent is a black man, said last weekend that if her supporter, cattle rancher Colin Hutchinson, "invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row." Say that aloud to yourself in a Southern belle society voice for true effect.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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