[CTrent1564]

What this guarantees is that Alabama will always now have 5 GOP vs. 2 DEM. The DEMs like Jones who won the Senate race in Alabama a few years ago will not have a chance to win in 1 of those non-minority congressional districts.

So in a district with say 25%-30% Black vote, a DEM like the Jones, or go back to the 80’s the late Senator Heflin of Alabama or Sam Nunn of Georgia could win in Southern States.

So while you are giving the Black voters and Black congressional caucus another member, you are guaranteeing 5 GOP seats in Alabama going forward.

The old southern yellow dawg democrat who were strong on Defense, believed in government programs that helped working people (not welfare), believed in supporting small business and family business vs. the Corporate interest which in my grandfathers time were associated with the New England GOP types like the Bush family, etc.

[Alberta's Child]

This really goes to show you how stupid it is to use race in any way to determine the constitutionality of a districting process.

If Alabama has 7 House seats and blacks are 25% of the population, then blacks are “underrepresented” with 1 seat and “overrepresented” with 2 seats. The math will never work unless Congress has at least 10,000 seats.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Just win over the black voters. End of stupid game.

[fieldmarshaldj]

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