Tennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district a week after the US supreme court effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act.
The move cracks Tennessee’s ninth congressional district, which covers Memphis, into three pieces, each of which contains almost exactly a third of the city’s Black voters. The new maps mean that all nine of Tennessee’s congressional districts are Republican-leaning.
I’m in Tennessee. We’ve had protests all over the state. The maga idiots here just laugh to themselves while our elected officials don’t listen to 36% of the population.
The retort is… yeah well look at Virginia… mofo they voted on that. I’d love to have the opportunity.
But honestly I knew after Nashville was busted up after 160 years in 2020 they were going to do everything they could to redden the state.
Fucking cunts.
Additionally fuck Marsha Blackburn.
It’s crazy how they try to predicate this on Virginia, when what Virginia did was literally a response to Texas and other red states gerrymandering…