Where Democrats Are a Dying Breed
2nd March 2011
From 1876 to 1992—116 consecutive years—the Mississippi lieutenant governor was a Democrat. This year, the Democrats haven’t been able to find anyone to run for that office. Nor, for that matter, have they been able to find candidates for state auditor and secretary of state.
Party switching has become rather common in statewide offices in Mississippi: since this past December, three state representatives and two state senators have changed their affiliation from Democratic to Republican.