TUNICA, Miss. _ Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams says she likes to tell people that she's Georgia-grown but Mississippi-raised.
Abrams returned to her state of birth Friday and regaled attendees of the Congressional Black Caucus Institute's annual policy conference in Tunica with stories of her upbringing in Gulfport and Mississippi's Gulf Coast region, using the vignettes to explain why she's vying to become the nation's first black woman governor.
"I'm not running for me," Abrams told a conference luncheon Friday. "I'm running for my family, I'm running for my community, I'm running for the South. And when we win the South, we win America."
