Posted on 09/26/2023 7:45:20 AM PDT by CFW
The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a defeat to Alabama Republicans for the second time in three months, rejecting their latest attempt to use a congressional map that includes only one majority-Black district.
The court in two related applications refused emergency requests from Republican state officials to block lower court rulings that invalidated the new map. Lower court proceedings to approve a new map are still ongoing.
The decision was in line with the Supreme Court ruling against the state in June that reaffirmed a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act. There were no noted dissenting votes and the court did not explain its reasoning.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Alabama is a fairly regular shape. Draw a line down the middle from north to south. Draw 2 horizontal lines east to west making six districts of equal square miles. Make a 7th district out of the bobtail.
Now adjust those lines north/south, east west until about 750,000 people are in each district.
Make the decision by geometry primarily and population secondarily, and no one can accuse you of anything.
I thought that number looked funny.
ANY one can be accused of ANYthing at almost ANY time.
...but then they should have to PROVE it.
This is another assumption that blacks will vote for skin color over substance.
That’s true, of course. But if the decision is simply geometric and the required population per district, then it will be harder to point fingers. The districts in Alabama are weird in shape like a drunk was doing a modern art painting.
Gerrymandering.....one day will they be running a district line right down the middle a highway connecting pockets of white residents like they did with blacks and Cynthia McKinney’s old district?
Personally, I don’t think districts should be allowed to be shaped on the basis of race of ANY color. There is a difference between equal protection under the law and more-than-equal influence under the law.
Okay...I see several mostly continuous blue areas amidst a sea of red. All those disconnected areas are one district? I’m guessing those areas are largely urban and have a heavy concentration of minorities.
Yes. Those seem fairly geometric to me.
You misread the site you linked. The 12.4% black was the NATIONAL number.
If you enter “Alabama” and “Black or African American alone” below the result which you’ll see will actually be 25.8%. So in point of fact blacks are under-represented by 50%.
Do you agree?
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