which is to say that essentially cindy hyde-smith wouldn't be good for mississippi's reputation. obviously it's a deep south state that has struggled to embrace sort of this new south reputation. so i think that in some ways was a good thing for his candidacy. but i think in the end, we're going to see a state do what a state like mississippi would do, which is to say we're going to see a very racially polarized electorate, likely 80% of white voters in mississippi are going to pull the lever for cindy hyde-smith, and over 80% of black voters will vote for mike espy. that's just how mississippi is. everything in that race in terms of politics, everything in that state in terms of politics has often been about race, right? i mean white people fled the democratic party and became republicans over the issue of race. so if you're a mississippian, you're sort of used to this language around race and dog whistling and signaling around race. but in the end, it will likely