I just heard that this is the first time since FDR that
Dems held every incumbent Senate seat. That is significant. Someone frin Axios.
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I fell asleep 
but I had to see Sen. Warnock through to his victory speech! 
His little ones were adorable -
I have an aunt and cousins in GA and was texting back and forth with one of my cousins last night as the results were coming in (she is in Duluth and was worried but I assured her that Warnock got this). 
She was born on Long Island, NY and raised in NH but went to college in Atlanta (and had had enough of crazy NH and its winters).
Her mom (my mother's younger sister who just turned 87) is there with her.
She had worked the early voting polls during the 2020 election (couldn't do it this year though).
I have other cousins from my mother's maternal side who were born and raised in the Philly 'burbs and moved down to "Hotlanta" because of the lower cost of living, inexpensive housing, milder climate, and bubbling community. Meanwhile my mother refused to go below the Mason-Dixon line although we did take her down there for one cousin's wedding about 20-some years ago. And since she was a big Ted Turner fan for years, she got to tour the CNN studio building, plus we visited Ebenezer Baptist Church and the MLK Center.
I also had a former co-worker who had moved down there years ago with her son for the same reasons and recently moved back up here to Philly a few years ago after her grands were done high school.
and especially as AAs. A century later I graduated from UMASS (1983).
I will say that no matter when you graduate, the fact that you did will always be a feather in your cap and a fantastic achievement because it is never easy!!!!
(and back then of course, all the schools were segregated). And yeah there's a huge family story but suffice it to say that they passed on that expectation down through the generations that you will go to college!
and you described the choices that women faced - or as my mother would put it - "It was the M.S. or the Mrs.".
My mother would tell us that her mother's brothers (her uncles) all went to college but the girls were encouraged to of course find a husband and get married (my grandmother eventually became a LPN). My mother and her siblings all went to college however and my mother's challenge to us was always "I got mine and you got yours to get", so it was a grand day when we finally "got ours".
My father's father also went to Atlanta U (where his parents went) and graduated from UPenn Dental School (and although accepted to Penn Medical School, had been told they already had their 2 "n****rs" but he was welcome to go to the Dental School, which he did).
Bottom line - folks make a way.
and the pick up was from his home state.
or is it extreme aversion to the repuke clown show and their creeping fascism 
Is the second FDR, JRB, Jr! 
Look what he has accomplished in 2 years, plus beating back that famous red wave to a puddle. They would not have the House except for the illlegal, gerrymandered maps and the Supremes allowing them.
Class!
with John Fetterman's win!! 
chances given his huge popularity in PA as their lieut. governor & all he's done at the local level there. I agree the national party needs to do better but with limited resources it is very hard otherwise they're spread too thinly.
BUT...for today we celebrate Fetterman's flip & Warnock's reelection and fight on. Again it came down to PA & GA
No one will match him. You do not know what FDR faced. He las had dipstick Republicans who caused the Depression, then had to fight them all the way. He welcomed their hatred!
But Biden is second.
Schumer just greeted Warnock back to WDC!
