In Louisiana, which has six congressional representatives, Republicans moved rapidly to eliminate one of the state's two majority-Black districts. Tennessee Republicans redrew the state's congressional map to get rid of its only Black-majority district, in Memphis, then stripped Democrats who protested the move of their membership in state house committees. Governor Tate Reeves of Mississippi declared that the 'reign of terror' of the state's lone Black congressman, Bennie Thompson, would soon be over, and announced that he expected lawmakers to draw new districts before the 2027 elections. South Carolina legislators are hard at work to eliminate Representative Jim Clyburn's plurality-Black district, the only one in the state. More than half of the United States' Black population lives in the South, so this amounts to an all-out assault on Black political representation in Congress. For many decades after Reconstruction, southern states deprived Black people of the right to vote...
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