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RE :”Walker and his allies have strenuously worked to police and restrict voting, with measures that will make it much more difficult for African Americans and Latinos to vote and via partisan redistricting, which redraws district lines to intentionally dilute Democratic strongholds.
Walker’s bill restricting voter rights came almost immediately after the Occupy-style labor revolt against his push to crush public-sector unions. Frances Fox Piven, author of many books on voting rights and social movements, told me, “We saw labor protests of unprecedented size and intensity over limiting their voice as workers. And then [protesters] were greeted with a law to limit their power electorally, too.”

Good!

[Art.] .... and via partisan redistricting, which redraws district lines to intentionally dilute Democratic strongholds.

Whoa, there, Jocko, you've got your athletic supporter twisted around backwards.

The whole idea of modern racial gerrymandering (as promoted by Richard M. Nixon) has been to isolate black voters in electoral "cancer wards" where hypermajorities are concentrated to eyeball-popping levels, but surrounding districts are likewise spared their democracy-busting, staight-ticket-Democratic voting patterns.

If all the black racist (since the author is calling people racists today) voters in Sheila Jackson Lee's old Houston district (which 40 years ago elected George H. W. Bush to the House, before the Democrats redrew it especially and specifically for Barbara Jordan) , as it was, say, 16 years ago, were redistributed among three or four districts, the Texas House GOP Caucus might be down two or three members.

Something to think about. And it was exactly what Dick Nixon was thinking about when he promoted "minority-majority" redistricting, to "de-blacken" as many U. S. House districts as possible nationwide, to take the pressure off Republican candidates (since black voters generally hate Republicans and vote against them 9:1 or 8:1; even educated blacks vote against them by 2:1 or 3:1).