Every 10 years, political lines are redrawn across the country based on the U.S Census Bureau data, typically by state lawmakers, leading to a host of legal battles over the new maps.
that the Black lawmakers he spoke with about the new congressional map in Mississippi said they were very pleased with it.
“Drawing lines in a way that unduly burdened racial minorities — that is an unfortunately familiar claim, not just in Mississippi, but in many parts of the country, and particularly in the South,” Levitt told Yahoo News. "But just because communities of color may drive population growth, that doesn't mean they have a seat at the table," Dan Vicuna, the national redistricting manager of“Unfortunately, in this country, there's a long history of elected officials in power using that power to either pack Black, Latino, Native American Asian voters into as few districts as possible or alternatively cracking those communities to spread voters throughout a bunch of different districts, so they have...
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