Jackson, Mississippi –Mississippi residents are facing a “nerve-wracking” wait to see whether the southern state its first Black senator in more than a century as vote-counting dragged on Sunday after last week’s midterms.
Voters who spoke to AFP in the state capital of Jackson on Saturday anticipated that history could be in the making in the whisker-close race between Democrat Scott Colom, an African-American man, and Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, a white woman.
With 97% of the vote counted by Sunday afternoon, Colom was 2,574 votes ahead of Hyde-Smith – a gap of just 0.3%…