Tip of the hat to Espy, but being a black man in the south means you can’t win statewide office.
US Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina is black.
So this officially leaves the Senate at 53-47 going into 2020, assuming no seats change hands due to deaths or resignations (rumor is John Kyl, who was appointed to take McCain’s seat in Arizona, is looking to resign but the Governor there is Republican so it’ll stay in the “R” column). That’s a very tough, although not insurmountable, hill for the Democrats to climb in 2020. They’ll need 4 pickups or 3 plus the VP, although realistically I think Doug Jones is a goner in Alabama which would make it 5 or 4 plus the VP.
This is simply not true. As mentioned, Tim Scott has won two statewide elections in South Carolina (a special election for the Senate seat and a general election). The first post-reconstruction African-American Governor in America, Douglas Wilder, was elected in Virginia in 1990. In the 2000s, Michael Williams was elected to the Texas Railroad Commission, a statewide office, several times and Thurbert Baker was elected Attorney General of Georgia three times. I’m not saying it’s common, but it happens.
Texas is not in “the South”. It is in Texas.
So one example out of the four states given is not ‘the South’, and you consider that important how? 
My thoughts exactly. NYT is reporting 46.1% for Espy vs 53.9% for Hyde-Smith. As you say, it’s a good result for a Democrat given the way Mississippi is, but it ain’t quite good enough.
Election Day may or may not be over in NC-9. Members of the state elections board are claiming shenanigans, and the board is refusing to certify the result of that race, which the Republican won by ~900 votes.
That promises to be an interesting story…
But nobody is saying what those “activities” are, or what happens next. One expects a lot of NC lawyers will be racking up some significant billable hours very soon.
No, I mean the South.
Last time I checked, South Carolina wasn’t just part of the South, it was the cradle of the freakin’ Confederacy.
And maybe Virginia isn’t really part of the South anymore, but Wilder got elected Lt Gov in 1985, and got elected Gov in 1989.
Virginia has certainly been trending blue - the larger cities, and the populous Washington, D.C. suburbs, are solidly Democratic. The governor and both U.S. senators are now all Dems.
And here’s the Blue Wave in three charts: The 2018 election blue wave, in 3 charts | CNN Politics
Which side did Texas fight on in the Civil War?
“The First to Go.”
Why don’t you go ahead and give us a latitude for your goal posts, so we can make sure they don’t keep shifting.
Seconded.
“Too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum” - James L. Petigru, 1860
It would be a lot simpler to just admit you were wrong.
On THIS message board??? :eek: :rolleyes:
Having lived in South Carolina for some time now, I can assure anyone who is curious that it is, indeed, the South. Thankfully, it isn’t either 'Bama or Mississippi.
Of course!
I’m happy… and humble… to admit that Asahi is incorrect. 