From Emmett Till to Robert Johnson, the Delta powered Scott Colom's historic Senate bid

Scott Colom won a historic U.S. Senate upset in Mississippi, the first Black senator since 1881. The AP projected his victory on Wednesday. Colom led Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith by about 4,700 votes out of over 962,000 counted. His margin came from 16 of 18 Mississippi Delta counties, where he outperformed Democrat Mike Espy's 2020 numbers.