Tennessee Tosses Last Black Democratic District
Tennessee has the 10th largest black population in the nation. And, yet, since the Supreme Court chucked a major portion of the Voting Rights Act last week, Tennessee's Republicans passed redistricting maps today to eliminate the state's one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district.
Now, all nine congressional districts in Tennessee will lean Republican, effectively negating the Black vote which largely leans Democrat.
This is how democracy ends in America.
Read the full story in The Guardian
Slipstream
They're doing everything they can to keep the king and his court in office forever.
Evangel
Permanent power for themselves too, and for the dark forces that are skirting justice in their collusion to end democracy.
Well Street
I've heard pundits from both sides of the aisle refer to the onslaught of gerrymandering and the further weakening of democracy, started by Texas, as a race to the bottom. It looks like Tennessee is vying for first place in that race, but South Carolina is indicating it covets the spot for itself.