Maybe. But before you jump to conclusions, consider that Tyrus Byrd is a Republican. She won out over a white male Democrat, who had held the Mayor's office for 37 years. By some accounts I've read, there was evidence of a lot of corruption and a "good-old-boy" network within the city administration, and people were fed up with it.
The Byrd Family published the home addresses of some of the :dissidents. [ for some unexplained reason[s]-}
Not a terribly Conservative thing to do to say the very least