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Originally Posted by b29510
alabama blacks get what ever they want, if not, its racist
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The only thing I see from this post is ignorance and anger.
Here is the deal. Whites are 63% of Alabama's population. Blacks are 26-27% of Alabama's population. There are 7 districts in Alabama. Based on the law of percentages, there should be 5 predominantly White districts and 2 predominantly Black districts. Whites are 5/7 of Alabama's population. Blacks are 2/7 of Alabama's population. You call it "Alabama Blacks get whatever they want". No. Alabama did some sneaky gerrymandering to reduce Black voting power.
I mentioned the Black Belt. The Black Belt is a region in southern Alabama named for its soil. It happens to be where the highest concentration of majority-Black counties are located. One way of reducing Black voting power was to split majority Black counties such as Montgomery, Dallas, and Tuskegee counties into the 2nd and 3rd congressional districts.
Why was this done? Because Alabama's GOP knows that most Blacks vote Democrat and most Whites vote Republican. Rather than make its platform more appealing to Black voters, the government in Alabama just put certain majority-Black areas into Republican-leaning districts. Black voting power got reduced.
I think the only reason you made such a post is out of anger and resentment. I live in Alabama and I see how politics works in Alabama.