Tim Scott is the first black senator to win election in the South since Reconstruction

Tim Scott is the first black senator to win election in the South since Reconstruction
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South Carolina's two Republican senators, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, easily won their races, making Scott the first African American to win a Senate election in the South since Reconstruction, as The Weekly Standard notes. Scott was appointed to the seat in 2013 by Gov. Nikki Haley, after then-Sen. Jim DeMint resigned.

Scott will now serve out the remaining two years of DeMint's term, before he will have to defend his seat again in 2016.

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Ryu Spaeth

Ryu Spaeth is deputy editor at TheWeek.com. Follow him on Twitter.