The victory of 43-year old African-American Democrat Scott Colom for the Mississippi Senate seat over incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith stunned the nation, and brought new attention to the state and South in general.  I will later describe this race, but would like to note that I have never ever before enjoyed the waves of euphoria that keep coming from any sort of election. My closest experience to something like this occurred 69 years ago.   I was a nobody in high school, but at some point early in my junior year of high school, suddenly decided that I wanted to go to either the California Institute of Technology or Stanford University. One of many deficiencies was that I had zero social/political activities. So, never having done anything like this before, I decided to run for vice-president of the senior class. Doing so meant you automatically became chairman of a wide variety of committees, like commencement and so forth. I've blogged on what I had to do to get accepted to ...