• 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