"The future transformation of Atlanta's electoral politics is well under way," said Michael Leo Owens, a political scientist at Emory University, who pointed out that another of Tuesday's victors was Alex Wan, the first Asian-American elected to the City Council.
The electoral annals underline how remarkable Scotland's transformation is.
They are not fit for purpose, utterly incompetent and have overseen the transformation of the Britain's electoral process into a circus worthy of a corrupt banana republic".
Despite the mythology, the nation only became leftwing in its electoral choices during recent decades – and this transformation in large part derives directly from the experience of the 1980s.
Ecuador's transformation began in 2007, after the electoral victory of President Rafael Correa's so-called citizen's revolution.
Their emergence in England will be a significant boost to the identification and profiling of local needs, providing leadership for a transformation in public services and local electoral accountability for leading communities.
With California having 55 electoral voters, 17 more than second-place Texas, its transformation from a red to blue state in 1992 upended the electoral math.
And both have ambitions that go significantly beyond electoral victory and toward broader social, economic and political transformation.
"Since many of our leaders are too busy watching the polls to grasp the urgency, or even the potential, of this transformation, leadership is coming from outside of electoral politics," she said.
