Democrats Win Deep Into the South, Flipping Seats From Texas to the Carolinas

Democrats broke Republican holds on the South that stretched back decades on Election Day, winning statewide in Texas for the first time in more than 30 years and electing South Carolina’s first Democratic senator since 1998.
In Georgia, voters elected the first Black woman governor in U.S. history and gave Democrats the governor’s office for the first time since 1998. 
North Carolina elected its first Democratic senator since 2008, and in Mississippi, where Democrats rarely compete statewide, the Democratic Senate challenger led the Republican incumbent by a few dozen votes as of publication on Wednesday.
The gains reached down the ballot. Democrats won at least 21 U.S. House districts that President Donald Trump carried by double digits, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and appeared on track to flip the Georgia House. In Tennessee, a Democrat led an eight-term Republican congressman by 280 votes in a district Trump won easily two years ago….