[Kuksool]

The Red spots must be where MS black folks live.

I’m glad Moore is out of the race. The seat leans GOP. I wish Gene Taylor would go for the Seante seat. that way we’ll get a two for one deal. And Trent Lott will finally atoned for his blunder back in 1988.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yup, that's the Delta, and Jackson, too (which has become heavily Dem). Interesting, you'll see the blue county just to the west, which is Vicksburg (Warren County) which still leans GOP. Some of those extremely depopulated Black counties also, interestingly enough, trended towards Dubya in '04. I'm expecting at some point in the future that counties like Tunica (the northwestern most red Dem county), which has been rapidly developing because of the casinos, may go Republican in the future if more Memphis refugees and those leaving DeSoto County engage in the expanding phenomenon known as suburban sprawl.

As for Trent Lott and the loss of his House seat, you forgot that Republican Larkin Smith did win that seat that Lott vacated, but nobody knew Smith's love of small planes would cut his Congressional tenure so short. Running Smith's widow, that Lott passed over, might not have guaranteed us holding the seat over Taylor (Smith's original 1988 opponent). When she ended up running later, she lost badly.