This country artist wrote a clever song about Blue Mississippi years ago
For four years, Mary Kutter's song "Mississippi Votes Blue" existed in the realm of the impossible. The Kentucky-born singer-songwriter and her co-writer, Matthew Osborn, created the tune in 2022 as a playful exercise in imagining things that would never happen in America. Kentucky would stop racing horses. Texas would quit selling barbecue. Georgia would stop playing football. Nevada would abandon blackjack. And Mississippi, as the joke and the lyrics went, would vote blue . Then this year's U.S. Senate election happened. As vote totals came in from around Mississippi, showing Democratic candidate Scott Colom with a razor-thin edge over Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, Kutter suddenly found herself at the center of a social-media storm she never expected. Then, on Nov. 11, the final votes were counted and Mississippi had, indeed, turned Blue, at least with one high-profile Senate seat. Colom declared victory over Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday evening, following the afternoon announcement that CNN had called the race for the Democratic challenger. Colom officials said that Hyde-Smith had called Colom to concede the race on Wednesday. Hyde-Smith congratulated Colom in a video released that evening. "I opened up my Instagram and all these DMs," Kutter told
