GOP Gerrymandering is Erasing the South’s Black Votes (opens in new tab)

On May 8, the Republican-controlled legislature of Tennessee passed new redistricting maps that divide Memphis’s 63 percent Black population across three white-majority districts. This eliminates the state’s sole Black-majority district. Republicans in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia are similarly pushing redistricting maps that would decimate their majority-Black districts. These moves come on the heels of the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Louisiana v. More The post ...