Raging LibTargAlabama Lawmakers Refuse to Create 2nd Majority-Black Congressional District
tallwookiewhy do the Democrats want to redistrict? is it because they’re losing? some other reason?
Bluskale1/7 districts (14%) were majority black, but the population is 27% black. The argument was that the black voters were unfairly concentrated into one district and diluted into the other 6 so as to limit their effective representation in the government.
who forced them to live in that district? couldnt they just move? presumably they’d move somewhere else, not stay in Alabama
Countess425Because the point of having elections is to represent the people who live in a place, not changing the demographics of a place to reflect the government a political party wants.