Here's how Hip Hop Republican (a site for Black Conservatives), describes the Scott victory this morning:

It was a victory for conservative Republican insurgents and a sign of the changing of the guard in the South: Scott, a member of the South Carolina state House, defeated Paul Thurmond, son of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, who retired from the Senate at age 100 in 2003. Thurmond ran for president in 1948 on a segregationist platform.

BookerRising.net, another top Black Conservative site called Scott a potential future "icon for the GOP," and added:

Mr. Scott will have only nominal Democratic opposition in November from perennial candidate Ben Frasier (who is also black). If Mr. Scott wins in November, he would become the first black Republican congressman to represent South Carolina in Congress in more than a century, since George Washington Murray of Sumter stepped down after two terms in 1897.

Scott was quoted after his win, in the Post and Courrier:

“The relevance of me being black is really, fortunately irrelevant. The voters voted for a guy who they felt represented their values and their issues and their philosophy.”

For his part, Thurmond said of his opponent's win:

“If some bridges are torn down because of this, that’s a great thing.”