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Republicans have a supermajority in South Carolina’s Senate: 46 members, and zero women. “Similar postelection stories are playing out across the Southeast, a region long defined by traditional culture and conservative politics. All but one state that held legislative elections last fall in this region saw losses of Republican women, including Georgia, North Carolina, Arkansas and South Carolina,” writes nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq6nxgzeq466nun42zslat4cgrj0r6dt4u0tdspyj7q85lpjpz8urslnj3rp (nprofile…j3rp)’s Jennifer Berry Hawes. The rest of the country saw gains for women in legislatures — so why is this region bucking the trend?

https://www.propublica.org/article/republican-women-state-legislature-election-losses-south-carolina

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