Rep. Jon Lancaster, elected to the state House of Representatives in 2019 as a Democrat, is the latest to switch affiliation to the Republican Party, adding to the GOP's legislative supermajority.
There are now at least 12 current members of the House of Representatives who were elected as Democrats but are no longer serving as Democrats.
Lancaster's District 22, which consist of Chickasaw and Pontotoc counties, was generally viewed as a district where a Democrat always had a chance of winning.
Johnson said legislative Democrats - primarily Black members - have not made white Democrats uncomfortable by supporting radical political positions or by not working with the Republican leadership.
One of the last strongholds for rural white Democrats was Lancaster's home area of northeast Mississippi.
For much of the 1990s and 2000s, northeast Mississippi rural, white Democrats were the dominant power structure in the Legislature, and especially the House.
With Lancaster's defection, all of those rural white Democrats, with the exception of Sen. Bryan, are gone.
https://mississippitoday.org/2021/11/01/jon-lancaster-party-switch-mississippi-legislature/
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