Posted on 09/28/2021 5:31:19 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A lawsuit filed Tuesday as lawmakers get set to draw Alabama's new congressional map is challenging the state's current congressional districts, saying they are “racially gerrymandered” and limit Black voters’ influence in all but one congressional district.
Alabama currently has one majority-minority district represented by U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, the lone Democrat and only Black member of Alabama’s congressional district. The lawsuit argues Alabama should have a congressional map that would “afford African Americans an opportunity to elect candidates of their choice in at least two districts.”....
“Alabama’s current Congressional redistricting plan, enacted in 2011 is malapportioned and racially gerrymandered, packing black voters in a single majority-black Congressional district,” the lawsuit states. The lawsuit argues that legislators packed as “many minorities as possible” into the congressional district that stretches from Birmingham through west Alabama and into Montgomery — “thereby weakening minorities’ voting influence throughout the state.”
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What she is arguing for IS racial gerrymandering!
I never understood why districts were allowed to be drawn the way that they are drawn. Why not just draw a line down the center of the state and cut it into even sized districts.
Or simply clump together adjacent townships.
Notice how the media never uses the dreaded “g-word” when Democrats are screwing Republicans to the wall?
Anyone with their eyes open could have seen this coming for months, if not years: Democrats will go shopping for sufficiently corrupt black-robed tyrants and try to overturn EVERY Republican-drawn district map for the upcoming decade, and they will succeed in doing so much more often than not. But never a peep from the Romney-controlled RNC when the shoe is on the other foot (like what just happened last week in New Mexico).
Doing what the minority party does best - stealing seats in the US House...
So is every congressional district ...
“I never understood why districts were allowed to be drawn the way that they are drawn. Why not just draw a line down the center of the state and cut it into even sized districts.”
Because population is nearly never distributed geographically.
Good idea divide the blacks betwen at least three districts that way there wont be any Dem congressmen.
District #7 (the Democrat district) is the one that looks like it’s been stretched around to ensure Democrat certainty.
Seems racist as hell to carve up Congressional districts for the specific purpose of guaranteeing racial outcomes. Districting should be based on natural geography/population numbers/economic interests/etc. Racial set-asides are just another Democrat gimmick to steal power.
Yep. Incorporate lots of blacks into one district to ensure a black Democrat is elected and you are racist for putting them all in one district so the other districts don’t elect blacks. But put them in several districts and they may end up with no black congressmen. You are diluting their votes and are therefore racist. You cannot satisfy some folks so don’t even try!
Done mostly by the Feds using the Voting Rights Act.
Now that has expired - Dems have to use other tools to maintain control. They are trying to repass the restrictions this Congress.
Dems would bow rather have two white liberals than one black
There are a substantial number of rational and reasonable premises on which to divide up the state. Occupations, culture, general incomes, urbanization. All of these are justifiable.
That’s why it is a political question.
Yes - exactly.
Of course if they were black Republicans they would also not count.
Call it “Gerrymandering” if you will but a state’s governor’s power over redistricting is the last bulwark against the federal government becoming one-party rule.
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