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Cindy Hyde-Smith won the last remaining U.S. Senate seat in a special runoff election by defeating Mike Espy on Nov. 27 with 55 percent of the vote. Hyde-Smith,...

“How is the white man going to control the government?” asked James K. Vardaman in 1907. “If it is necessary, every Negro in the state will be lynched;...

When I arrived in Oxford in August of 2015, I was a conservative. I was raised in the South by evangelical Republican parents where the candidates’ support...