Black Democrats accuse Republicans of using redistricting to create 'Jim Crow 2.0'
Republican lawmakers divided Memphis’s 63% Black population across three districts, eliminating Tennessee’s only Black-majority seat and narrowing Black voters’ representation.
- On May 8, Tennessee's Republican-controlled legislature passed new redistricting maps dividing Memphis's 63 percent Black population across three white-majority districts, eliminating the state's sole Black-majority district.
- Following the Supreme Court's decision in Callais, which dismantled the Voting Rights Act, GOP lawmakers across the South triggered a redistricting onslaught targeting majority-Black districts.
- Enacted May 7, the 9-0 map specifically targets Memphis's 63 percent Black population, affecting a state that did not elect its first Black congressperson, Representative Harold Ford, until 1974.
- Southern Republicans are dismantling at least five majority-Black districts across South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, with Rep Jim Clyburn warning of a "comprehensive approach" to creating "Jim Crow 2.0."
- Georgia Gov Brian Kemp called a special session next month to redraw maps, while Mississippi officials seek to oust Rep Bennie Thompson, potentially leaving the state with no Black representatives in Congress.
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Republican state legislatures across the South, Florida included, are passing new congressional redistricting maps that systematically divide concentrated Black populations into multiple white-majority districts to neutralize minority voting power and limits political representation. It is a regression to Jim Crow-era electoral suppression. The post GOP Gerrymandering Is Burying the South’s Black Voters appeared first on FlaglerLive.
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KFOR-TVBlack Democrats accuse Republicans of using redistricting to create 'Jim Crow 2.0'
Black Democrats on Capitol Hill are up in arms over the GOP effort to purge Congress of minority districts, accusing Republicans of silencing Black voters and, in the process, undermining decades of civil rights advancements. Many are framing the debate in existential terms, warning that the Republicans’ redistricting campaign, spurred by President Trump, combined with [...]
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