>Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has won a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat, helping break the Republican Party’s supermajority for the first time in 13 years
Loathsome_Duck on
The reason this is most frightening to them is that you cannot gerrymander districts that vote unpredictabily without risking losing big.
imjustsurfin on
Deep Joy!!!
Jlovel7 on
Isn’t the is because they had to redraw lines to be more democratic friendly?
um_chili on
Dude flipped by a 71/29 margin?? That’s insane for a challenger in a traditionally R area (or maybe it’s not traditionally R but that’s what context seems to suggest). Would love to know more about the context of this race if anyone’s aware.
admiral_whatever on
I’m in this district and wanted to add that this is huge and a shock even to the people who voted for him. He was by no means a popular mayor and certainly far from an ideal candidate.
Yes – it is a new district because of a reversal of a race-driven gerrymandering previously by republicans. But even without being a new district, typically these things go like 80/20 to the republicans in this area due to lack of voter turnout for young/black voters.
In this district, even if 100% of black constituents voted, it would have been like 51% but it went to a black democrat over a white republican by a 70/30 margin. That means a lot of white southerners rejected the republican party, which gives us a glimmer of hope where we had none.
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>Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has won a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat, helping break the Republican Party’s supermajority for the first time in 13 years
The reason this is most frightening to them is that you cannot gerrymander districts that vote unpredictabily without risking losing big.
Deep Joy!!!
Isn’t the is because they had to redraw lines to be more democratic friendly?
Dude flipped by a 71/29 margin?? That’s insane for a challenger in a traditionally R area (or maybe it’s not traditionally R but that’s what context seems to suggest). Would love to know more about the context of this race if anyone’s aware.
I’m in this district and wanted to add that this is huge and a shock even to the people who voted for him. He was by no means a popular mayor and certainly far from an ideal candidate.
Yes – it is a new district because of a reversal of a race-driven gerrymandering previously by republicans. But even without being a new district, typically these things go like 80/20 to the republicans in this area due to lack of voter turnout for young/black voters.
In this district, even if 100% of black constituents voted, it would have been like 51% but it went to a black democrat over a white republican by a 70/30 margin. That means a lot of white southerners rejected the republican party, which gives us a glimmer of hope where we had none.
Info if interested: [https://www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/mississippi-2025-special-elections-results/](https://www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/mississippi-2025-special-elections-results/)
On one hand, yay.
On the other, he was incredibly corrupt as Hattiesburg’s mayor