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So the county is minority white, the board is majority white. How does one draw the lines to have an effect of racial composition upon the board? It’s gonna be hard to do, since whites are the majority on the board but a minority within the district. Since the majority of the residents in the district are either black or hispanic, it is reasonable to expect that they might vote for Democratic candidates over the Republican ones.
This should be interesting. I wonder how they want the lines drawn.
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Oh fucking please…
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Lawsuit is thrown out in 3, 2, 1
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Do these geniuses realize that their reasoning would completely undo the Great Republican Gerrymander of 2011 if their case got to SCOTUS and they won? Or are they crazy like a fox looking ahead to the Great Democratic Gerrymander of 2021?
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Ironically, it’s because of conservative redistricting a conservative SCOTUS on the legal challenges thereto to it’s OK to gerrymander by party. So if they can’t show racial gerrymandering, they lose. Or should lose. They will of course eventually have their claim heard by conservative judges.
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This is so stupid it’s already expended more of my time than it deserves.
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Expect to see a lot more of this sh*t in the years to come, as whites suddenly wake up to the fact that they’re no longer automatically in charge of everything everywhere all the time.
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Gee, you don’t like gerrymandering? Karma’s a bitch, guys.
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Objection, your honor. Counsel is leading the witness.
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Hahahaha…they think they’re being clever by playing turnabout, but they’re just giving DOJ more evidence that TX should be “opted in” (or whatever you want to call it) under the remaining valid sections of the VRA. They probably think they can even things out…make a case for “both sides are doing it”…by making this argument, and thereby fabricate evidence that TX’s redistricting wasn’t racist against brown people because something something it was racist against white people too…but that argument is just so full of backfire potential that it’s hilarious. What a fucking joke.
What it also does is provide superb highlighting of the fact that part of what has driven the white fright freakout over the past 6 years, which was so wonderfully kicked into high gear by the election of President Darky, followed by a census that showed demographic shifts like the ones mentioned in this article, is this: (some) white people are desperately DESPERATELY afraid that they will now be on the receiving end of newly institutionalized, systemic racism and discrimination in this country…that what their forefathers did and they’ve enjoyed the benefit of will now be visited upon them in the name of revenge and “evening the score.” It’s an offshoot of all the projection they’re so frequently engaged in. Because they are racist shitbums who would discriminate against brown people at the drop of a prayer rug, they believe all brown people want nothing more than to take over this country and do the same to them.
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All I can say is SUCKIT!!!
Well no true white person would be a Democrat DUH. See you in court, race traitors!
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I think that’s spelled with an “a”, not an “e”.
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BTW, you’re falling for their trap, Josh. They WANT you to argue that it’s all about Dem and Republican. What they’ve done is take advantage of a set of facts to manufacture pretty close to the exact opposite argument of what people are saying when they point out that the Republican-run state of TX redistricted itself to favor Republicans by trying to concentrate the minority votes into as few districts as possible while diluting their votes everywhere else,i.e., trying to kill minority voting rights and power. We all know that’s racism and was motivated by racism, etc. What THEY want to argue is that it’s not racism, just party politics and was motivated solely by partisan competition (i.e., that it shouldn’t trigger the provisions that remain that would make the VRA pre-screening applicable). They want to be able to say “it’s not racism…it’s partisan gamesmanship and it’s nothing but a non-relevant coincidence that it happens to fall along racial lines.” The conservatives on the SCOTUS are itching to make that argument to kill more of the VRA and other laws.
So, by re-interpreting their argument in this situation as driven solely by partisan concerns, you hand them the same argument in the reverse situation.
Rather, you should stay focused: this situation and this argument they’re making are driven by the same fucking racism that drove them to support the statewide redistricting when it was blatantly racist in nature, but in their favor. Period. Their entire argument is “no matter the numbers, this was supposed to be a white people country and so we should be treated like the majority.”
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…but they are in this case. Still 100% in charge of that area.
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Shouldn’t their beef be with the Texas legislature? If so, who controls that again?
For a moment there, I thought this was The Onion.
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Whites: the new oppressed minority…in some whites’ minds.
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