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[Federalist] African Americans and Hispanics overwhelmingly vote Democrat in most elections. In raw numbers, Hispanics increased from a little over 2,500 in 2000 to more than 10,000 in 2020 (and likely many more by 2026). It’s safe to estimate that there were enough Hispanics alone in DeSoto County who voted Democrat on Tuesday to create the 1,800-vote lead for Colom.
The overall demographics of the state remain relatively stable. The percentage of white population has only decreased about eight points since 1980, while the black percentage has largely remained stable. Mississippi overall counts more than 100,000 Hispanics in its population — more than enough to tip the balance given Hispanics’ usual tendency to vote Democrat.
In the grand scheme of things, Mississippi has not experienced a demographic change as dramatic as, say, Texas has, but Tuesday night shows that even a small demographic change can have major consequences for elections and the policies that result from them. As we at The Federalist have pointed out time after time in our election fraud coverage, it does not take much to decisively change a state’s, or a country’s, demographics to affect an important election. |