Capitol Hill (CNN) -- The red wave that swept Republicans into control of the Senate led to the defeat of the last white House Democrat in the deep South on Tuesday. Georgia Rep John Barrow, a pro-gun, fiscally conservative Democrat, who was running for his sixth term, lost to Republican businessman Rick Allen. The same night that the last white Southern Democrat serving in the House lost, South Carolina elected Tim Scott, an African American Republican, to the Senate in South Carolina. Scott becomes the first African American to be elected in the South and the first to start a full term since Reconstruction.
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The South was once dominated by Democrats, but they are now an endangered species there
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Congressional districts have been drawn to emphasize minority votes in some areas and conservative votes elsewhere
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Rep. John Barrow was the last white Democratic congressman representing the Deep South
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