Brad McElroy

Mississippi is roughly the same % Black as today’s Bed-Stuy, which is represented by an entirely Black slate of local officials, as well a Black member of Congress. But Mississippi does not have early in-person voting, requires photo ID to vote, and has a felony disenfranchisement law dating to 1890 that today permanently bars nearly 70,000 state residents from voting. @DemocracyDocket reports that in the last midterm election, that state "ranked dead last in the nation for voter turnout" and that this year voters there had to overcome "a system that perhaps makes it more difficult to vote than anywhere in the country." Scott Colom's win is a remarkable achievement.