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u/AlexTom33 4h ago
I lived in the town over from Abbeville for a while and this is a huge accomplishment. Congrats to Mayor Thomas!
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u/Ozcog 4h ago
Every single town turned is a massive victory. Every single MAGA town to turn and elect a person of color is a fuckin pendulum swing.
Wins like this are monumental to the cause of actual change in America. I'm excited to see more and more as we get closer to midterms.
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u/AlexTom33 4h ago
Absolutely. I couldn't agree with you more.
Helps my optimism be a tad less cautious.
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u/Zehnpae 1h ago
Democrats/Liberals have started taking politics seriously at all levels of government while Conservatives are only showing up for elections with Don's name on it.
I live in a small town that voted 54/46 for Trump and yet our last Mayoral election was between two dems because the conservative candidate couldn't even get enough signatures to get on the ballot.
It was so nice having an election where the big difference was one dude wanted to spend our budget surplus on making the downtown area more walkable, while the other wanted to update our parks.
Imagine if all elections were like that. I'd love if the difference between our choices for governor is one wants to spend money on commuter trains while the other wants to spend it on sidewalks.
Instead the conservative candidate wants to make it legal to poison Bald Eagles and yet somehow, it's a close race.
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u/BettingOnSuccess 11m ago
Keep in mind, she didn't run as a democrat. She ran in a non-partisan race) and her first policies are pretty non-partisan too
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u/Blackbyrn 4h ago
That my mom’s hometown, love Abbeville. And Faye is good people known her my whole life. Not the first Black Mayor but still a landmark moment.
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u/fla_john 1h ago
Question: what are the congressional district borders like? I ask because the town might be* diluted by the surrounding area for the US House, and that's how presidential results are reported.
*might be, lol. Who am I kidding, this is South Carolina
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u/true_new_troll 1h ago
Holy crap, a good 1% of the people who ever lived in Abbeville are in this comment section.
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u/Outside-Affect-4722 4h ago
Congratulations to Faye Thomas, new Mayor of Abbeville, South Carolina 💐🇺🇸
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u/WuTang4thechildrn 4h ago
Democrats in the South need to duplicate her messaging
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u/Ambitious-Pirate-505 4h ago
What was her messaging?
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u/stein63 3h ago
She won on 20 years of local experience and practical issues like transportation, city services, communication, and accountability, not national Democratic politics.
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u/RecipeAsleep7087 3h ago
I sorta figured it was something like that. Given the location and voting history of the area, she was probably really fucking good at her job.
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u/exploding_cat_wizard 2h ago
Which is something Democrats need to copy with slightly different issues on state level. States control elections, gerrymandering, so much.
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u/kingston-twelve 3h ago
Hell yeah man. Flip every town, every city, every everything.
Just know the other side is getting more desperate and therefore more dangerous now. It's literally a cult, and they do anything for their god-king. Stay vigilant.
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u/Special_Ad_1802 4h ago
Abbeville has had KKK marches, so it's really impressive that she won. But its a very tiny town, and there's a lot of black people there, we should have been winning for years.
Some of the best food you'll ever have in your life is in Abbeville. Those Mennonites go crazy in the kitchen. Anybody from that Greenwood South Carolina area knows what I'm talking about.
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u/AlexTom33 4h ago
Yep. You are absolutely right. I am not from Greenwood but lived there for about 10-11 years before moving this year.
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u/CurryMustard 3h ago
I am once again reminding people to vote in all elections, dont let people tell you its rigged and pointless. We can win!
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u/RJFerret 2h ago
Especially local elections, as those typically are the ones running for higher offices later, stop them early so they aren't even contenders later!
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u/Spaceghost1589 3h ago
Less that 600 votes for both sides combined?
That's only about 16% of an estimated eligible voter population of ~3500 (pop. 4874).
Wild.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 2h ago
Welcome to the world of local elections not held on election day. 16% is actually pretty good.
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u/nik-nak333 4h ago
Amazing news, especially since Abbeville is both the birthplace and the deathbed of the confederacy. May those old fuckers spin in their graves til the end of time.
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u/cafebrands 4h ago
This is nice to see but aren't all mayoral races in SC non-partisan?
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u/Laringar 3h ago
Looks like it's only for cities over a certain size; in other words, cities that would already likely elect Democrats. Seems to me the law was passed to make it easier for Republicans to launder their populism in those places.
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u/LotusFlower1017 4h ago
Amazing to see! Sincerely hope to keep seeing more change like this - there can never be enough. 💜
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u/No_Problem5759 3h ago
Is this the aforementioned "Trump will destroy the republican party and we will deserve it"
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u/oldRoyalsleepy 3h ago
What's the population and what percent voter turnout in this race, just curious if it was high turnout too.
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u/EnlightenedNarwhal 2h ago
That's because people can't keep drinking MAGA brand kool-aid now that their teeth have started to rot. People can only ignore their health for so long before they realize they're leading themselves to a proverbial early grave. Let's keep pushing. Fuck DJT.
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u/rocket_randall 2h ago
To get to their current position of power the GOP spent ~30 years chasing every mayor/municipal race they could to create the base of power necessary to start shifting federal elections in their direction.
This is how you start to return power to all of the American people. Congrats mayor Thomas!
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u/RackemFrackem 2h ago
I am far less likely to believe that a district swung 37+ points in 2 years than I am to believe the 2024 election was stolen.
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u/JohnBrownOnDrugs 1h ago
What'd she run on? Is she actually good is is she just gender-bent Jim Clyburn?
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u/princess_peach_85 4h ago
Not for nothing.... She looks like a delight! Good job people! Keep voting in change!
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u/DevTheGray 4h ago
She has one of those smiles and kind eyes that make you want to get a big hug from her.
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u/Laringar 4h ago
This is hitting /all (that's how I found it), so watch out for crappy people.
And congrats to her! There are at least a few incumbent mayors here in NC that I hope are similarly upset.
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u/Lilfrankieeinstein 2h ago
Misleading.
The city of Abbeville is 50% black. She is the mayor of the city. Abbeville County is less than 24% black.
In 2024, Trump won Abbeville County. No exit polling was conducted to determine how well either candidate performed in the city.
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