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Mississippi: Historic change has come at last

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The news last week from the US Mid-term elections has been utterly seismic, as noted by Caron here.

But something else really big has happened which deserves separate focus.

While the party poppers were being swept up from the Democrat celebrations, officials in Mississippi were quietly and labouriously sifting through ballot papers. The vote for the state-wide US Senate post was too close to call. A real nail-biter.

NAACP’s* Legal Defense Fund website takes up the story:

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