North Carolina's district maps struck down by Supreme Court for 'racial gerrymandering' - Polidicks

North Carolina's district maps struck down by Supreme Court for 'racial gerrymandering'

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[quote]The Supreme Court has ruled that officials in North Carolina “racially gerrymandered” congressional voting districts. The court struck down two districts that were created in 2011 when Republicans controlled the state legislature and governor’s office, saying that race had played too large a role in their creation. The court said gerrymandering placed too many African-Americans in the two districts. The result was to weaken black voting strength elsewhere in North Carolina. The Associated Press said that both districts have since been redrawn, and the state conducted elections under the new congressional map in 2016. Even with the new districts, Republicans maintained their 10-3 edge in congressional seats. Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the court, said the state did not offer compelling justifications to justify its reliance on race in either district. The issue of race and redistricting one is a familiar one at the Supreme Court and Ms Kagan noted that one of the districts was “making its fifth appearance before this court”. [/quote] [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/north-carolina-district-maps-supreme-court-ruling-racist-gerrymandering-a7749676.html[/url]

There's been a spate of these stories lately. Not altogether surprising that it happened, more that it's being confronted. Thank fuck.

Now get rid of gerrymandering altogether so that politicians have to actually work to be re-elected, thanks.

[QUOTE=joshuadim;52261911]Now get rid of gerrymandering altogether so that politicians have to actually work to be re-elected, thanks.[/QUOTE] And replaced it with non-population based (mixed) Proportional representation, I definitely hope so.

Thank God, I was just talking to my girlfriend about how far right our reps are for a state whose people are not nearly as gop friendly as they were. The Republicans gerrymandered the shit out of my state.

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