• Bluskale@kbin.social
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    1/7 districts (14%) were majority black, but the population is 27% black. The argument was that the black voters were unfairly concentrated into one district and diluted into the other 6 so as to limit their effective representation in the government.

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      who forced them to live in that district? couldnt they just move? presumably they’d move somewhere else, not stay in Alabama

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        Why should they move?it’s their homes, their lives. Should we just make a state for black people? Or instead represent the people fairly. If you look at the maps it’s pretty obvious they cut the districts to give black people less representation

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        If you suddenly got notified that the place you live has been redistricted to put you in a district which reduces your voting power, would you be ok with your “solution” of uprooting your entire life, changing jobs, finding a new place to stay, and re-registering to vote? Or would you maybe pursue a less completely-insane solution to the problem?

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        Because the point of having elections is to represent the people who live in a place, not changing the demographics of a place to reflect the government a political party wants.