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Clean, compact, and concise districts should be drawn without race, income, voter registration, sex, age, etc. in mind. Though, current law does not reflect that.
Agree 100%. Number of residents and geographic borders is all that's needed to create the districts. Sounds like a job for AI.
Alabama is a very political polarized state, and that political polarization falls along racial lines. Most Blacks vote Democrat, and most Whites vote Republican. Actually, the South is like this. There are more Blacks in the South than any other U.S. region. A majority of Black Americans live in the South. Most of the predominantly Black districts are in the South. To understand Alabama, one has to understand its geography, its demographics, and its history. This culminates to what Alabama is today.
In a democracy, the voters choose the politician. With gerrymandering, the politician chooses their voters.
This is true. And if the politicians were truly acting in the best interests of everyone, they would feel the need to do a bunch of gerrymandering. Politicians would not feel the need to choose their voters.
In the case of Alabama, there are things specific to Alabama that are going on. And race is a big part of it.
alabama blacks get what ever they want, if not, its racist
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.
Clean, compact, and concise districts should be drawn without race, income, voter registration, sex, age, etc. in mind. Though, current law does not reflect that.
Alabama has always drawn its districts with race and political party in mind. Why this is, there are a variety of reasons.
Alabama has always drawn its districts with race and political party in mind. Why this is, there are a variety of reasons.
"and political party in mind."
So has Md. and I'd bet many other dem run states.
My county was growing in the number of repubs.
We had a woman repub in the House for years.
The dems, being in control split my county 4 ways into dem run districts.
"people in glass houses..."!
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Obviously they aren't so confident.
