30 years ago Mississippi was electing our 3rd New Democrat progressive governor in a row

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and California was gearing up to elect a nativist white nationalist conservative as governor.

4 of Mississippi's 5 House seats were Democratic, Trent Lott was the sole Republican in his suburban coastal district. Mississippi's Senate delegation was split with Stennis as a Democrat and Cochran as a nominal Republican (he had switched parties to avoid a bloody primary after Eastland's retirement). CA's House delegation was 18 Republicans and 27 Democrats. Today, 4 of Mississippi's 5 House seats are Republican, and while I definitely support and believe in Mike Espy's candidacy in the special election, we remain a longshot to put any blue on the Senate board in MS. CA's House delegation is 14 Republicans and 38 Democrats.

30 years ago, Elizabeth Warren and Rick Perry were both in Texas knocking on doors for Presidential candidates: Warren for Bob Dole, and Perry for Al Gore.

All I'm saying is, never believe anybody who talks about "permanent trends" or "demographic certainty". The parties shift, constantly, as the electorate does.

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1. Corollary: now is the time to start hitting the GOP, hard, in the South

Every wihite nativist vote they won over in the Rust Belt scares a college-educated white person in the South. See Doug Jones as a template here.

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2. It is just as well time travel does not work.

I doubt anyone would believe what may come.

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3. Mississippi has never had a governor who wasn't a white male

Despite having a population that is almost 40 percent Black (and over 50 percent women).

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4. I expect that to change

Though it looks like our best shot (and this seems to be realistic) at the Governor's mansion next year is Jim Hood, who is yet another white male.

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5. I hope you are right

Here is an interesting article I read on the subject:

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/19/black-political-influence-mississippi-has-slowed-despite-increase-elected-officials/537533001/