🔸 Following the announcement of the results of the mid-term elections in the United States, Scott Cullum of the Democratic Party was announced on Wednesday night, November 11, as the elected senator of the state of Mississippi.
🔸 Mississippi traditionally and historically leans toward the American Republican Party and this is the first time in almost half a century that the Democratic Party can represent the residents of this state in the Senate.
Also, in more than 150 years, this is the first time a black senator from this state has gone to the US Congress.
Cullum is the first black senator in the history of the state of Mississippi to be elected by a majority of the people. The black senator who went to the Senate in 1875 was elected by members of the state House of Representatives.
The Democratic Party has not had such a majority in the Senate since 1986. 🔸 Last week, with the announcement of the results of most constituencies in the mid-term elections of the United States, the Democratic Party candidates managed to win a majority in both houses of the United States Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate.