Mississippi whites who vote Democratic

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Polls show Mike Espy doing better with white voters than most Democrats in MS-SEN special. Could many of these voters be coming from rural northern MS?

Probably they don't know Espy is black yet.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

These days: ome college professors, some college students, and some bearers of grad-school degrees who are too poor and too indebted to student-loan sharks to move, find a better life for themselves, etc.

The above who vote Dem are disproportionately women, and disproportionately LGBT as well (out or not). 

Plus, as others have said, the last of the Dying Yellow Dogs.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

If Mike Espy overperforms with whites, as a few polls show; could he beat Chris McDaniel?

For sure, but this race will be Espy vs Smith no doubt.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

If Mike Espy overperforms with whites, as a few polls show; could he beat Chris McDaniel?

For sure, but this race will be Espy vs Smith no doubt.

Unless Trump endorses McDaniel.

Which would be awesome, but I doubt it, kinda like Blankenship.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

If Mike Espy overperforms with whites, as a few polls show; could he beat Chris McDaniel?

For sure, but this race will be Espy vs Smith no doubt.

With Smith winning...

correct

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

--Public employees (schoolteachers, county clerks, postal workers, etc)

--Trial lawyers in Jackson and Biloxi/Gulfport

I honestly can't think of any other coherent "groups." The rest are just random white people who have their own idiosyncratic reasons for voting Democratic.

I wouldn't even include university students because I guarantee you Republicans win white college students in Mississippi by landslides. Ole Miss gets a lot of out-of-state students who are basically rich white kids from the Atlanta suburbs. Fraternities/sororities are very big there. If you're a liberal white high schooler, there's a good chance you're going to self-select out and go to school somewhere else.

Many from DFW suburbs go to that armpit too.