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This chapter recounts how Raphael Warnock won a runoff election in January 2021 to become Georgia’s first African American US senator and how the 2020 election cycle culminating with the 2021 Senate runoffs demonstrates that Georgia has become a co
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This chapter examines two Black candidates’ very different paths to winning Virginia statewide elections, separated by three decades: L. Douglas Wilder for lieutenant governor (1985) and governor (1989) and Justin Fairfax for lieutenant governor (2
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This chapter reviews the changing demographics in the South and growing willingness of a share of the White electorate to support Black candidates and that has encouraged a growing number of African Americans to wage campaigns for the top offices in
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The South is the region with the most African Americans, and the region that has been most crucial to the success of every African American with national political ambitions. It was the battleground of the fight against slavery, and the site of many
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African American candidates for statewide office in the United States face unique challenges given the nation’s complicated racial dynamics. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the United States had elected only one African American as governo
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In one of the most widely watched, analyzed, and expensive US Senate campaigns in history, Democratic nominee Jaime Harrison came up surprisingly well short in his bid to become the second African American elected to the US Senate from South Carolina
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This chapter reviews the recent campaign by Georgia’s Stacey Abrams (D) for governor. Had she succeeded, Abrams would have become the nation’s first Black, female governor. Abrams secured the Democratic nomination easily. On the other side, her g
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This chapter reviews Progressive Black Democrat Andrew Gillum’s 2018 campaign for governor of Florida, showing how he came within 0.4 percent of defeating his White Republican, Trump-supported, opponent Ron DeSantis. It relates how Gillum’s upset
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This chapter brings together the findings of the previous chapters and identifies the key trends affecting the competitiveness of Black statewide candidates in the South: changing demographics, partisan competition, politics of race, and politics of
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