Barack Obama triumphed in a racially divided Mississippi primary today by winning about 90% of black votes and a third of white voters.
He also won last week's Texas caucuses, scoring more state delegates overall than primary-winner Hillary Clinton.
Mississippi awards 33 delegates and Texas 193 in their respective state races. •
Obama has beaten Clinton in contests across the South—South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana—all states where black voters made a strong show in his favor.
Mississippi exit polls showed that nearly half of voters were black, a fifth were independent, and one in 10 Republican.
Mississippi is the last contest before Pennsylvania's whopping 188-delegate primary next month.
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