https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/tennessee-republicans-pass-new-map-erasing-majority-black-us-house-district-2026-05-07/May 7 (Reuters) - Tennessee Republicans on Thursday approved a new congressional map dismantling a majority-Black U.S. House district centered on Memphis, as several other Southern states seek to leverage last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision that severely weakened the landmark Voting Rights Act.The move, greeted by loud protests at the state capitol, is likely to flip the Democratic-held seat in November's midterm elections, when Republicans' razor-thin majority in the U.S. House of Representatives will be at stake.The new map splits Shelby County, the home of Memphis, a majority-Black city that played a critical role in the civil rights movement, into three separate Republican-leaning districts. The new lines could oust Democratic U.S. Representative Steve Cohen, who has represented Memphis since 2007. Republicans already control the state's other eight districts.With President Donald Trump's encouragement, Republicans forged ahead despite protests at the state capitol and fierce denunciations from Democrats, many of whom decried the plan as racist."It is a form of Jim Crow terror," said state Representative Justin Jones, a Black Democrat, comparing the map to the racist election laws that restricted Black Southerners from voting prior to the 1960s. "You know what you're doing. It's shameful."Republican lawmakers have defended the map, arguing it was not motivated by race but by partisan considerations alone."This gives us a unique opportunity for the first time in history to have an all-Republican delegation sent from Tennessee to Washington, D.C., to represent conservative values," Republican state Representative Jason Zachary said.
As the vote proceeded in the state House chamber, the Republican speaker, Cameron Sexton, repeatedly had hissing and yelling protesters removed from the balcony. When the House took its final vote, Black lawmakers stood in the front of the chamber linking arms, as protesters sounded airhorns and chanted angrily.The Senate vote was also briefly delayed when state Senator Charlane Oliver, a Black Democrat, stood atop a desk on the chamber floor and unfurled a sheet with the words, "No Jim Crow 2.0," written on it, while other Democrats stood in protest.REPUBLICAN STATES RUSH TO TAKE ADVANTAGEThe Supreme Court decision found that Louisiana had relied improperly on race when drawing a second majority-Black district to comply with the Voting Rights Act's safeguards for minority voters. The 6-3 ruling opened the door for Louisiana and other Republican-led states to eliminate Democratic majority-Black districts that had long been seen as legally protected.Louisiana has suspended its May 16 U.S. House primary election to give lawmakers time to draw a new map, even though tens of thousands of voters already cast early ballots.
In South Carolina, Republican lawmakers are pushing legislation that would allow them to pursue a new map erasing a majority-Black district held by U.S. Representative Jim Clyburn, a civil rights activist and Democratic Party kingmaker who is serving his 17th term in office.Alabama has asked the Supreme Court to reverse a court order that created a second majority-Black district in 2023 and permit Republican lawmakers to use a map with only one. Republican lawmakers this week advanced a bill that would allow them to postpone the May 19 U.S. House primary election if the court rules in their favor.The flurry of moves has supercharged what had already been an unprecedented mid-decade national fight over redistricting, set off last summer when Trump pushed Texas Republicans to rip up their congressional map in favor of a plan that targeted five Democratic incumbents.Other states, both Republican and Democratic, followed suit over the ensuing months. Republicans currently have built a net advantage of about four House seats across nine states, pending the outcome in Louisiana, South Carolina and Alabama. But litigation in Virginia, Florida and Missouri could further scramble the scorecard.
>>1512814I always though gerrymandering was a bad thing but now that my guys are doing it i think it’s a good thing
>>1512819>now
>>1512814>Republican lawmakers have defended the map, arguing it was not motivated by race but by partisan considerations alone.That’s still bad you fucking fascist faggot.
>>1512819Unironically, yes. Dems had no problem doing it for decades. Now they want to bitch when it's turned against them? Fuck 'em.
Well it's illegal to gerrymander districts based on racial segregation now. I doubt black people are the only Democrats in Tennessee. It'd be better to have a Democrat that is more well rounded.
if i had a time machine, sherman would get nukes
>>1512829Projection.
>>1512829How does someone get this misled?
>>1512835Most MAGA are pussies who can't handle it when their targets fight back
>>1512838>he said while being upset that Republicans are fighting back
>>1512848>>1512833
>>1512849hey, republicans slitting their own throats is a type of fighting back
Status of Republican redistricting efforts:>Texas: +5 Republican-leaning seats. Map enacted>Florida: +4 R. seats. Map enacted>Missouri: +1 R. seat. Map enacted>Ohio: +2 R. seats. Map enacted>Tennessee: +1 R. seat. Map enacted >North Carolina: +1 R. seat. Map enacted>Alabama: under discussion >Louisiana: under discussion >South Carolina: under discussion >Total: +14 R. seats
>>1512859God, it’s so FUCKING blatant. This is how democracy dies.
>>1512859why are ziocons like this?
>>1512866The US is a constitutional Republic and this is the only way to stop the Democrats from completely destroying the country going forward
>>1512886>>1512833
>>1512886It's both a republic (not a monarchy) and a democracy (leaders are elected).Are you stupid?
>>1512888You are an ESL Indian.
>>1512835he's right though>>1512833so why are you mad about someone doing what democrats are doing>>1512851>winning and beating the shit out of dems is cutting themselvesok....>>1512866democrats rigged the election so why cares democracy already died
>>1512899>so why cares democracy already diedesl moment
>>1512814>Dems gloat about gerrymandering CA, NY and VA into oblivion >Republicans get the VRA overturned>Can now gerrymander the South into oblivion Stupid games, stupid prizes.
>>1512925>>1512833Also,>VRAVoting Rights Act. You're trying to avoid calling it that because you know it looks bad.
>>1512927It was named that to begin with because "Democrat Gerrymandering Act" would have looked bad at the time
>>1512928No, it wasn't.
>>1512930but hunter's penis! transexuals!
>>1512928>Those pesky democrats making it illegal to completely deprive minority populations of representation
>>1512932>Deprive minorities>By drawing the wackiest districts possible to cancel out white votes
>>1512939>no no it's perfectly natural with states with a 20% black population to have literally 0 majority black districts>please ignore how this was a deliberate jim crow era strategy to deny black people the ability to have their vote actually matter once they received it, which was proven in court to be unconstitutional
>>1512814They're carving this country up like a turkey, murdering democracy dead before our very eyes, and nobody's doing a fucking thing about it. There should be fury in the streets over this and so much else, but everyone's too numb to care.This country is finished.
>>1512940>Dividing by race?You're racist, obviously.
>>1512814Can anyone explain to me why the fuck the legislature is allowed to define electoral boundaries for their own benefit?
>>1512814I hope they bleach the seat too.Imagine the smell.
>>1512968Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution grants states the authority to regulate the "Times, Places, and Manner" of elections. It also gives state congress the full authority to modify those regulations.Every state is like this.
>>1512829>>1512823>>1512971AH YES, OF COURSE. GO ON THEN AND TELL US WHICH DEMOCRAT MANAGED TO GERRYMANDER A BLOOD RED TENNESEE? HOW WOULD HAVE VOTED THAT IN??? IN A FULLY REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED STATE???
>>1512814Remember when redistricting was supposed to happen every 10 years? Fucking disgusting. Just an open, blatant power grab. Friendly reminder that they KNOW they're going to lose in the midterms and they're doing this to prevent that.
>>1512956>Guys it's racist to give the black population a district to represent them>It's obviously not racist to systematically divide black communities along voting lines to ensure they aren't a majority anywhere and thus have effectively no say on the greater stage
>>1512999Ironic that you want racial districts and to get rid of the popular vote
>>1513000>Ironic that you want racial districtsThe fucking constitution wants "racial districts". You cannot deprive minorities of the right to representation by gerrymandering their communities away. Even with this ruling the old Virginia maps are still illegal because a state with 1/3rd black population having only 1 out of 6 districts be black majority is violating the people's rights.
>>1513002Are you saying that blacks are somehow different from us?
>>1513018you're not white or american. and yes, black people ended up in america under different circumstances than the people you're larping as
>>1513018I'm saying there is a proven history of oppressing minorities by dividing up their populations into districts specifically designed to remove them from the democratic process. This literally is why the Voting Rights Act passed in the first place; this was objectively done for exactly that reason.
>>1513025"Minorities" are a net tax loss to the country and oppressing white people isn't the solution to your made up victim scenario
>>1513026>made up victim scenariolmao this was objectively proven to be the case in court. Jim Crow states did this and freely admitted to it because they didn't want black people's votes to matter once they had to allow them to vote.
>>1513026>"Minorities" are a net tax loss to the country>oppressing white peopleRetard alert, retard alert.
>>1512814I heard this was in retalation to California's Prop 50, which was retaliation to Texas's gerrymandering, which was relation to Illinois gerrymandering.It never ends.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Illinoisin the last round of house elections in illinois, the democrats got abut 53% of the vote to the republicans 47%the democrats won 14 seats, the republicans got 3
>>1513030>the democrats won 14 seats, the republicans got 3Reminder in Texas that same year, Republicans got 59% of the vote to Democrats 40%. Yet they got 25 seats to the Dems' 13.
>>1512833 Cry harder and lose more power, lefty faggot.
>>1512838Pretti Good observation there lefty fag.
>>1512866It's hilarious watching leftists pussies flip out over "duHmOcrACy"You are the same faggots who pretend that the guy who won the free and fair democratic election is a king and throw tantrums in blue cities because "itS noT FaiR tHat wE lOst"
>>1513061>>1513062>>1513064thanks for proving you literally work at a shill farm, nerd. your mother regrets your existence
I live in this state and man, the polls where depressing. Absolutely no democrats showed up to do anything. A few republican local leaders showed up to do a little advertising and campaigning. But it was only the oldest fuckers with nothing to do at all. There are plenty of dems even in the mountains here, but none of them have the energy to even try anymore because they keep loosing. All the while I'm watching my whole town slowly fall apart and get bought up by corperations, almost all of which are from out of state. I live right next to the national forests and the locals have gotten so bad about treating it like shit and killing threatened species, or even just dumping toxic waste into the rivers, that even the park rangers have given up and only focus on keeping the gated off areas clean anymore.
>>1513069I hear that. The despair is oppressive everywhere.
>>1513064>You are the same faggots who pretend that the guy who won the free and fair democratic election is a kingTell that to him because he's fucking acting like one.
>>1513069Same in Oklahoma. Farms losing workers even if they're citizens because they're constantly harassed. Parents actively sabotaging education, so their kids are stuck in jobs that pay shit. Schools in multiple counties are being forced to build safe rooms since idiots demand the right to own so many guns they won't notice when their depressed kids take one to shoot up the classrooms. Multiple city hospitals just straight up closed due to the medicaid fuckery last year. Our senator is a local embarrassment eagerly preparing to become a national one. I'm not saying a Democrat would just magically solve ALL these issues, but my state is just in a downward spiral of poverty, illiteracy and disease.
>>1513069>>1513073>>1513100ESL shills getting more and more desperate
>>1513100>Farms losing workers, constantly being harassedCan be solved by deporting all the browns that harass them and the communists/liberals that imported them.>Parents actively sabotaging educationThe education boards have already done this by teaching faggotry and race-critical theory. The parents taking control of it is a return to the norm.>Hospitals closedPay your staff better.>Senator is an embarassmentWell yeah, he's a politician, every politician is an objective faggot regardless of leaning or platform.>I'm not saying a Democrat would solve all these issuesOf course not, they're the troglodytes that caused the issues. Just deport all the browns and force corporations to pay Americans fairly at gunpoint if you have to. Everything else flows from safe white communities with decent wages.
>>1513115wow, communists were responsible for the triangle trade? you're so knowledgeable shill anon
>>1513115>Hospitals closed>Pay your staff better.Even when putting on this enlightened racist larp you expose just how little you know about what’s going on.
>>1513118they're arguing that they should deport themselves tooits just weird that they're saying something I agree in when all their other points are so batshit crazy
>>1513115>Can be solved by deporting all the browns that harass themYeah that's not who is harassing them buddy.>The parents taking control of it is a return to the norm.And active dragging the literacy rate down the shitter.>Pay your staff better."My goodness, why didn't we think of that? Here, let's use the money we don't have!"
>>1513120>And active dragging the literacy rate down the shitter.To be fair, literacy rates correlate perfectly with browns per capita.
>>1513121>That's not who is harassing them buddyIt is, and I'm not your buddy, pal.>Dragging the literacy rate down the shitterAlso the browns. We were at 91% literacy as a nation before we started letting the Cubans, Haitians and Mexicans in.>Here, let's use the money we don't have!You joke about this but that is unironically how a majority of the global economy is operating these days. Its been decades since earnings have been shackled to actual sales, we're operating off the backs of financial institutions that consider debt to be positive income and treat business loans as house money with which to gamble. If there were going to be one actor in society that perhaps should be allowed some leeway in overspending, it should be the State, since we all depend on this interconnecting system of systems to survive in (Current Year). We let Corporate get away with it and they don't benefit any of us beyond the tiny minority of people they directly employ.
>>1512972Ah so it's America being the depreciated beta test of modern democracy again.
>>1513191>It's all the browns fault! Even the things ICE is doing!Yeah your mentally ill obsession with scapegoats isn't reality and you should really seek help.
>>1513274It is the illegal browns fault ICE must do their job.
