Politics
Can a black man become Mississippi governor?
OPINION – There is no reason to believe what Obama did in 2008 can’t be replicated at the state-level for a man like Johnny DuPree, who has a message worth listening to…
America is experiencing a new age of Reconstruction.
President Barack Obama is not the most historically important African-American running for political office in the near future. The ram in the bush is a man by the name of Johnny DuPree (pictured).
DuPree is the mayor of Hattiesburg, a city whose population is split evenly between African-Americans and whites, and he enjoys widespread support in many white dominated counties as well. Certainly having an African-American candidate on the ballot may have helped spur black turnout, but DuPree also won in areas like the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where whites are a large majority. It is especially evident, due to the way redistricting has caused starkly black voting districts versus white voting districts, that DuPree could not have done as well as he did without support from both races.
