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Finding blacks around whom to draw those districts proved challenging. ... The debate over racial gerrymandering has bred exaggerations on both sides. Cynthia McKinney, elected from Georgia's max-black Eleventh District, warns directly that the Supreme Court's decision will revive segregation.
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The real cause of this paucity of blacks in Congress is not racism, however, but racial gerrymandering, in which black voters are concentrated in congressional districts where blacks predominate, instead of designing districts ... Racial Gerrymandering, Backed By Dems, Hurts Blacks - by Ralph Connor - Heartland Perspective...
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As soon as blacks had the vote, they were well equipped to protect that right. The number of black voters and officeholders shot upwards. White Southern politicians, such as George Wallace, responded to the now-level electoral playing field by dropping anti ... Due to this gerrymandering to create black districts,
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Gerrymandering - Scholary books, journals and articles Gerrymandering at Questia, world's largest online library and research service. Subscribe now and do better research, faster with tools and automatic bibliographies. ... Political Gerrymandering and the Courts by Bernard Grofman. 340 pgs.
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Florida's legislative black caucus could be heading toward an internal feud over a ballot initiative aimed at stopping lawmakers from gerrymandering districts.Most of the Legislature's black members ... "There's no question [the anti-gerrymandering amendment] would impact the number of minority seats," Haridopolos said.
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ALEIGH, N.C. -- The United States District Court here has ruled that a serpentine, 160-mile-long Congressional district in North Carolina, though deliberately drawn along racial lines, is nonetheless constitutional because it helps remedy past discrimination against blacks.
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Gerrymandering Pages from the FairVote Archive: ... For years, FairVote has highlighted how our nation's reliance upon winner-take-all elections and single member districts for Congressional elections without national standards has left our voting process open to the abuses of unfair partisan gerrymandering.
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"Jim Crow" laws had effectively disenfranchised southern blacks; there were poll taxes that few blacks ... So although many in the "Grand Ole Party" oppose racial redistricting in principle, in practice they rather approve of the results. Racial gerrymandering has helped turn them into the South's dominant political force.
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The irony of nonracial conservatives saying these things is that racial gerrymandering helped the Republicans win the House for the dozen years they held it. With the racial gerrymandering, most blacks are segregated into their own district, and in the mostly white districts, white liberal Democrats couldn’t...
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