Changing Face of The Mississippi Democrats
With the February 2009 defection of Billy Nicholson, the majority of the Democratic Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives, for the first time in Mississippi history, are African-Americans.
Defection seems to be an ongoing trend in Mississippi politics. Many of these are switches from the Democratic party to the Republican party. Since 2000, thirteen known officeholders have left the Democratic Party, four of which occurred in 2011.
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