Cotton Victory Gives Arkansas 2 GOP Senators For First Time Since 1879

TPM reports:

When the U.S. Senate race was called by the networks for Tom Cotton on Tuesday night, the first-term congressman made history, marking the first time since Reconstruction that Arkansas will have two Republican senators serving together.

For more than a century, starting in 1879, the southern state elected exclusively Democratic senators. Republican Tim Hutchinson broke that streak in 1997 when he won an open seat vacated by David Pryor.

History.