In Montana, A Liberian Refugee Mounts U.S. Senate Challenge
Montana is largely white and leans conservative. When Helena Mayor Wilmot Collins, a refugee from Liberia, entered the U.S. Senate race.
In the early 1990s, Wilmot Collins and his wife Maddie, escaped the Liberian Civil War. Broke and starving, they ended up in Helena, Mont.
"Why do you think we fled?" Collins asked. "We fled because we wanted a second chance."
Soon after moving to their first home, a neighbor knocked on their door and alerted Collins to hateful graffiti outside his house.
"On my wall was 'KKK, Go back to Africa,' " Collins said.
This wasn't the first racist threat
