Tennessee Approves New Map Aimed at Flipping the Last Democratic Seat

Tennessee Approves New Map Aimed at Flipping the Last Democratic Seat

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee General Assembly gave final approval Thursday to a new congressional map that slices up Memphis to scatter Black voters into neighboring districts, a move intended to eliminate the state’s last Democratic House seat.

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GOP MOVES TO ADD ONE SEAT ... TENNESSEE OFFICIALLY REDRAWS MAP TO GIVE SINGLE DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN THE BOOT ... NYT: Tennessee Approves New Map Aimed at Flipping the Last Democratic Seat

TheVoiceOfJoyce Thank you Supreme Court for bringing racial inequality back to our States. The Republican States didn’t have to obey the President and Court and chose to act morally reprehensible. How far will they go? Will the majority of constituents su

Tennessee state representative Justin Jones burned a Confederate battle flag in the rotunda of the Tennessee State Capitol in protest of the legislature’s redrawing of the state’s congressional district maps to erase the majority-Black 9th Congressional District. By cracking the city of Memphis into three pieces and joining them to white suburbs, the legislature turned all the state’s districts into Republican seats. The actions of the Republica…