texas and now mississippi are the birth pains of kind of a third political reconstruction. so we ll have to start looking at things different. and we have to recognize the shrewdness of trump and cindy hyde-smith. she threw that comment out, even if she was joking she knew what she was doing to change the conversation because she doesn t want black and white mississippians who are poor and low wealth to understand where she stands on living wages and where she stands on poverty and where she stands on health care. because she knows at that level they lose. will is a history also in the south of black and white people coming together and we can t forget that and every time that is the potential to happen, this is what happens. so we can t get distracted. these states are not just rich, they are voter suppression and divided states. the last senator in the midterm republican got elected by 125,000 votes. 600,000 african-americans didn t vote. over a million almost a
poor, guess what? we all black in the dark so we better stand together in the light. that is what we have to happen across this country. and evan, it is interesting because you do a lot of the data and follow the data on younger voters and all of this hope that younger voters will change the trajectory of southern states but i wonder if they are that different in terms of issues and whether or not these sort of dog whistles work on young white voters and with four in ten mississippians having so many african-american voters, is it just a mountain too high to cli climb because people are dug in. if you are a younger person that has not gone to college you are more likely to vote for hyde smis sm smith and then you are. but among younger or millennial african-americans 80% say the republican party doesn t care about people like them and 29% say the democratic party doesn t. so the democratic party is actually there and is a home. the question is not whether or
it was absolutely wrong and furthers the gulf between republicans and african-americans. we lost african-americans by 81 points and we deserve to. every time we have an opportunity to do outreach to the african-american community, we blow it and walk away. ferlando castile owned a gun and then two weeks ago. same with the nra and republicans, robberson in chicago who is a hero in subduing an armed man and licensed to carry, chicago police killed him. we were silent. nfl protest, we mock the nfl players as sons of bitches and don t talk about the root cause of what is going on is we do deserve that and i think cindy hyde smith will ultimately win but i m disgusted by what is going on because not only is it making a mockery of the republican party but it is morally wrong. but it is working. i think that the challenge is if you look at the percentage of african-americans by state. mississippi is at the top. only district of columbia, so as far as states it is the most