Actually this tends to create less democrat districts as it puts them all into one group that vote 95% democrat. Having said that if the overwhelming population is GOP and they are winning by 55% in all districts then yes this will net more Dem seats.
BTW: This is ridiculous. They say we can’t discriminate based on color but yet that’s EXACTLY what the supreme court did.
I think the general problem....the 7th district....big chunk of area west of Birmingham...is heavily black (57-percent). The only way to make this 2nd ‘out-of-thin-air’ black district....is by carving a chunk of the 7th off and giving it over to the 6th district (just east of Birmingham), which has 20-percent blacks at this point.
Or you could carve off enough of the 7th to give to the 1st (Mobile region), but their current black population is only at 28-percent....so it’d take another big chunk of black voters to rebuild the 1st, and thus lessen the strength of black voters in the 7th.
No matter how you do it....the 7th will be marginally black-voter based in the end, and thus lose it’s democratic ‘character’.