In the least shocking news of the week, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, the racist, antigay Republican from Mississippi, won last night’s special runoff election, narrowly defeating the Democrat Mike Espy, who came just eight points away from becoming the state’s first black senator since Reconstruction, and thus bringing the 2018 midterm elections to a close.
Just a little recap: Earlier this month, Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to her senate seat in April following the retirement of Thad Cochran, came under fire when video of her joking about sitting in the “front row” of a “public hanging” surfaced online.
Days later, another video of her joking about voter suppression hit the internet.
Then photos of her wearing a Confederate soldier’s hat and holding a rifle while touting “Mississippi history at its finest!” were uncovered on Facebook.
Then it was revealed that she had attended a segregation academy in high school.
Then it was reported she sent her daughter to a segregation academy for high school, too.
Then it was exposed she accepted campaign donations from a former member of the KKK.
Honestly, though, is anyone really surprised voters in Mississippi picked her of all people to represent them in the United States Senate?
Folks on Twitter certainly are not:
In the latest demonstration of their love affair with white supremacy, the majority of white women in Mississippi voted to send bigot @cindyhydesmith to the United States Senate.
I’m sure she’d love a ‘public hanging’ send off party…#MSSen
— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) November 28, 2018
Gov. Phil Bryant said the media turned out Republican voters “like never before” with our reporting on Cindy Hyde-Smith. She won by the slimmest margin of any Republican running for this Senate seat in 40 years. #MSSen
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) November 28, 2018
Good morning to everyone except Mississippi, who elected a blatant white supremacist who sent her children to a segregated school.
The state has so much suffering, but most is self-inflicted. Indulging your darkest nature is increasingly indefensible. https://t.co/4ja0tsEJpy
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) November 28, 2018
Seeing people I know, my friends, who voted for Cindy Hyde Smith with no other explanation than “She’s Republican” is honestly so hurtful. I have no problem listening to people’s beliefs and doing my best to understand but that is not a reason to vote someone like her into office
— Adria ? (@agemulligan) November 28, 2018
Don’t you mean, “Congratulations, Jim Crow”?
— George Henson, PhD (@unpoetaloco) November 28, 2018
If you voted for this racist piece of shit I don't want to be your only "Black friend."
You are who you voted for!
Unfollow me. #Cindyhydesmith pic.twitter.com/Be3L1lGqvx
— TJ LSU DAD (@tj_lsudad) November 28, 2018
I’m angry. I’m angry at my parents. I’m angry at Mississippians. I’m angry at @cindyhydesmith. I’m angry @realDonaldTrump. I’m angry at people who claim Christianity yet vote for a candidate like her. I’m angry at parents who raise their kids to support “leaders” like that.
— Michael Dylan Lewis (@dylan_lewis3) November 28, 2018
Everyone in Mississippi who voted for the racist @cindyhydesmith, is a racist too! #FuckRacism
— The Trav (@socaltrav) November 28, 2018
And now, like always, the memes…
Related: Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith hates gays, loves voter suppression, and thinks hanging black people is funny
Kangol
Yes, she won, but by the smallest margin of a Republican US Senate candidate in several decades, no?
jckfmsincty
Mississippi remains the most backward state in the country. Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas and West Virginia say, “Yeah”.
frankcar1965
Don’t forget my home state of Louisiana!
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Tombear
Mississippi and West Virginia are in many ways exactly like third world countries. There is no emphasis placed on public education so consequently, you have an ignorant electorate.
Mack
I said yesterday that she would win simply because the “whites” in Mississippi are still and will always be racists. They do everything they can to make it harder for the blacks to vote in the South. The lady who ran for the governorship and lost in Georgia is suing the state for this. Hopefully other states will have the blacks in their states follow suit.
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frankcar1965
MS is nothing but a shit hole, with higher infant mortality then some African countries. Too bad a hurricane has not hit it and taken out the state, we can only hope.
Mick406
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SportGuy
Why is anyone surprised at this, its freaking Mississippi.
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The wrong state is burning….
Aires the Ram
I get it, you all hate Trump, and label anyone who voted for him, a racist, bigot, homophobe and I don’t know what all. Ok. Have fun with that. The silent majority is watching you!
Kangol
You’re a minority and shrinking. Trump has never broken 50% support in aggregate polls, and Democrats received 17 million (Dems: 51,554,612 votes (59.0%) > GOP: 34,424,948 votes (39.4%)) more votes in the US Senate races alone. In the House races, the margin was Dems 56,096,960 votes (52.1%) > GOP 49,654,316 votes, or 6.4 million votes. Any way you add it up, that’s a minority!
Terrycloth
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crowebobby
Mack: I find if I click the “reply” to someone else’s comment, I can sign in, but not I try to sign at ADD YOUR COMMENT
WindsorOntario
I feel bad for the gay people who can’t leave Mississippi and have to stay there because they don’t have the money to leave. It’s a real shame that all the progressive, highly populated gay cities have become so exclusive and so overpriced that the majority of us from smaller communities can no longer live there, unless you have many roommates and if you don’t know anyone there it’s not really practical.
It’s important to remember a lot of our fellow GLBT family is still stuck in those places like Mississippi or North Dakota and didn’t have the access to education or money to leave.
Thad
I know institutional racism is slowly dying in Mississippi. But this election result shows there’s a way to go.
Mississippi is proud of its hospitality, and many in the state are truly kind. But not all.
I look forward to a new state flag for Mississippi. Georgia changed theirs. Why celebrate being on the wrong side of history?