As a federal judge considers the new boundaries approved in the latest redistricting map to prevent packing Black residents into the same districts, a Times-Union review found the new map doesn't actually change much.
Marcella Washington, a Jacksonville resident and retired political science professor who is one of the plaintiffs suing the city, said the city did not succeed in unpacking the districts.
She could accept the city’s map, or alternatively, approve a map put forth by the civil rights groups suing the city, or even commission a newly made map not involving either group.Howard wrote in her Oct. 12 order that the city has used race as a “predominant factor” for decades in drawing boundaries for Districts 7, 8, 9 and 10.
The racial makeup of the two maps, initially reported by Jacksonville online publication The Tributary, illustrates how boundary changes in Districts 7, 8, 9 and 10 would result in increasing the number of Black residents in District 7, maintaining the same level of Black residents in District 8 and reducing the number of Black residents in Districts 9 and 10.
She said the city’s original map would have assured that Districts 2, 12 and 14 would not have a sufficient number of Black voters for them to have a “meaningful impact on any election or a meaningful voice on any issues of concern.”
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