[July4]

Conservatives in the South could make even greater advances if we were not still under the heel of the 1965 Voter Rights Act. The first thing my spouse said looking at the headlines this morning was, “Now, maybe we can get rid of the really ludicrously gerrymandered political districts we have in North Carolina.” Nope, I said. Any changes have to be approved by the Justice Department. States named under the Voter Rights Act are essentially treated like occupied territories. Please, look at the districts created for electing NC representatives to the US House. To allow citizens to have their votes count — one man, one vote— we need help. FORTY-FIVE years of humiliation (by Democrats and Republicans) is enough. Free the Voter Rights states.

[Alas Babylon!]

Amen,brother.

My little town here in Alabama can’t expand its city limits without Justice Department approval. The people want it, even the black folks (tax revenues would go up), but that side of the town is “too white”, and would upset the careful racial balance created by the Feds.

We are not free.