Headline: Louisiana Illuminator, 6/10/2023
“Unfortunately, the facts in Louisiana are just as bad, if not worse,” Evans said. “The situations are as close to identical as possible, and we expect the outcome to be just the same.”
At the core of the Alabama case are the state’s population demographics as recorded in the 2020 Census and the number of congressional districts determined by population. Alabama has seven congressional districts and a 31% minority population.
Simple math would dictate minority voters comprise 31% or roughly two of those districts, but Alabama’s Republican-majority legislature adopted a congressional map with just one minority district.
The case against Louisiana’s congressional maps is also rooted in demographics. Louisiana has six congressional districts and a 33% Black population — an even larger minority share than Alabama. However, GOP legislators also adopted a congressional map with just one minority district that a federal judge ruled was racially gerrymandered. [emphasis added]
The art of the Louisiana gerrymander
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