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Pamela,
It only took a few weeks for several states across the South to use the Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act as permission to rip up their maps and strip power from Black voters.
This isn’t a matter of opinion — it’s what the data shows. The New York Times recently ran an in-depth analysis of how leaders in three Southern states dismantled congressional seats where communities of color had held power for decades.
This quote puts it into context: “While Republicans said they were focused only on partisan advantage, not race, the changes effectively targeted areas where Black voters form the majority.”
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The details are stark and make it clear what we’re witnessing:
- In Louisiana, where a third of voters are Black, pro-gerrymandering forces aimed to eliminate a majority-Black district by splitting voters across multiple districts to dilute Black voting power.
- In Alabama, where more than one in four residents are Black, anti-democracy extremists are using a map that was found by a federal court to be likely discriminatory, explicitly diluting the voting power of Black Alabamians.
- In Tennessee, extremists went after the state’s sole majority-Black seat in Memphis — one of the largest majority-Black cities in the country. Under the new map, all of the state’s congressional districts are majority-white.
It’s clear: We’re in a fight for the soul of our democracy. And anti-democracy forces aren’t finished — they’re already working on expanding their redistricting crisis next year.
Voters across the country deserve fair, representative congressional maps. And we won’t stop fighting to make it so.
Thank you for being a part of this fight,
KT Coleman
Deputy Campaigns Director
Redistricting Action
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