We are in 2026 and things seem to be going to BACK IN THE Day….
‘Race Neutral’?
Alitro and his crew HAVE opened the ‘Race Card’ back up……
Red state’s of 2026 are running to rob voters of color of their representation in Government….
This is NOT making America Great…
After electing it’s first Black/Mixed President?
Sections of America are rushing to export Latino’s/Hispanic’s and shut the door on Black Political Power….
Could the Alito majority be ok with making Blacks sit in the back of the Bus Next?
That After Donald Trump has left the stage for JD Vance and others deal with?
The Supreme Court may argue, in gutting the Voting Rights Act, that they’re creating race-neutral districts. But the practical reality of what this means is staring political leaders and, more to the point, Black voters in the face: white Republicans fracturing African-American districts to unseat mostly Black Democrats so they can elect more white Republicans.
I’ll stick to the raw politics and let others make the self-evident moral case for Black electoral power in a country with our history.
In their rush to grab an extra seat or two, Southern Republicans should consider what may happen to their 2024 gains with Black voters.
Do you think GOP nominees will get 21 percent of Black men, as Trump is estimated to have received in 2024, in future elections when you’re handing Democrats perhaps the easiest racial messaging they’ve had in the post-Civil Rights era? In case you needed a primer, that would be: You can’t trust Republicans, they only want to silence your voice.
Anybody who has ever talked to a Black voter, particularly those under 60, can recall a recurring conversation: ‘I don’t have any particular attachment to the Democrats, they’ll say, but I almost always vote for them because they’re the less racist of the two parties.’
You think that voter will be in play anytime soon when Democrats can point to Republicans as the party that, once Trump demanded it and the courts allowed it, came for elders such as Reps. Emanuel Cleaver II and Jim Clyburn? Sure, you can argue that this was mere politics and they were targeted because of their party and not their race.
But let’s live in reality, shall we?
The images of white Republican legislators wearing MAGA flags to vote, Black lawmakers being jostled by white police officers and the only four African Americans to represent Louisiana in Congress since Reconstruction sitting together pleading for Black districts speak louder than any words. And that was just last week. The ads write themselves.
Which raises the second obvious case for caution. Given Trump’s unpopularity, the price at the pump and the precedent of most every modern midterm, this was already shaping up to be a forbidding election year for Republicans. To pick at the rawest of American wounds as the country marks 250 years would only turbocharge Democratic enthusiasm and turnout.
As if liberals weren’t already eager to vote. Just consider the side-by-side turnout trends in primaries to date this year, which continued this week in Indiana and Ohio.
Finally, there’s a reason why the non-aggression pact between old-school Black Democrats and white Republicans endured in the South over the last few redistricting cycles.
Both got safe seats.
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You draw a Clyburn, for example, out of his district and his former voters could help create new, competitive seats in South Carolina in a Democratic-tilting year such as this — as Clyburn himself said out loud to CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday.
And would such seats get any easier to win in 2028? Unless Trump recovers on his way out, his would-be Republican successor will own an unpopular, lame duck president with Democrats chomping to take back the White House.
I know Trump and his top lieutenants are leaning on Southern legislators to put their primaries on hold, redraw their House maps and make it slightly more unlikely that he won’t be impeached for a third time. The president is telephoning South Carolina state senators, I’m told by a pair of state capitol insiders, and making the sale in what could be a close vote in that chamber.
But before the roll is called there and in other states considering a hasty redraw, GOP state lawmakers should consider one simple question: This may be in Donald Trump’s best interest, but is it in yours?…
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “The House map has taken on a larger GOP bias as a result of redistricting, although when it’s all said and done, the bias by one measure may essentially be the same as it was in 2018, when Democrats easily won the House.”
The Redistricting thing ain’t over yet folks…