People of color made up the vast majority of Texas’ decade-long growth spurt, especially Latinos, a group that accounted for fully half of the state’s growth.
The Gerrymander raises its ugly head once again.
It is worse than that, I believe. I think Texas’ gerrymander signals the beginning of “Competitive Autocracy” (Harvard study), where the minority permanently engineers exclusionary rule nation wide.
And ask any one of these bastards and they’ll tell you, “I’m not racist.”
Yeah, right.
Nothing new about this stuff, just more blatant. My own district was among the most 'mandered in the nation for most of my life. Got it fixed and whattaya know, got a Dem rep out of the deal.
But but but, they’re not really people…why do you not understand this?
That’s been their plan all along. And it is why there is no end to all of this but violence, one way or the other. They believe they are 100% entitled to it…in a lot of cases, that God decreed it for them. Permanent white Christian hegemony is what defines the nation and its identity and it ceases to be America if it ceases to be ruled by a white Christian hegemony, from top to bottom, governance to culture. If that means everything must be rigged to produce permanent MINORITY-RULES white Christian hegemony, then they’re entitled to it. They will kill and maim and shoot and riot to get it. And if they get it, we’ll all have to face the decision of whether we do likewise to end it. And the fulcrum on which it all hinges is this: while the rest of us sit around hoping something will come save us from it and rationalizing that it could never happen, they have decided that they are done with the social contract, done with playing games, done with norms and hiding their intentions, done with laws they don’t like, done with trying to create plausible deniability or inventing superficial false pretenses to justify or excuse or make what they’re doing more palatable and are actively working to make their permanent minority-rule happen and willing to do anything whatsoever in order to achieve it. No holds barred. Nothing off limits. They’ve “had it.” The last straw fell on November 4, 2008. End Game.
There are 6 justices on the SCOTUS just itching to rule that it’s not at all racist and can never be…that it’s merely partisan with coincidental, ancillary demographic characteristics that aren’t the “real” issue.
Many Latinos consider themselves (and are considered by others) white.
And vote Republican as a result.
That can be a factor in our Politics.
The GOP does not mind getting more voters. From any quarter. Look at other categories of POC individuals “tailor made” to go for Democrats…and who, nevertheless, go for Republicans.
For that matter: look at the people classified as white who–on paper–should vote Democratic and who will not.
Well, when the Speaker bans the term “racism” from debate, you know it’s going to take an ugly turn…
The only good thing about the new map was that there’s an off-chance that Sheila Jackson Lee might lose her seat in a competitive (Democrat vs Democrat) race.
Yep. It’s coast-to-coast, and the strategy has been deliberate and implicit across the Republican electorate. The mask has dropped. And now we have choices to make.
And this is the end result of the Supreme Court curtailing the Voting Rights act, that took away the power to stop something this egregious. It’s infuriating that John Roberts claimed that racism was dead as part of that process, because it obviously isn’t. Odds are this survives too, they are in the most conservative chain of the judicial system and the current SC will allow Texas to cheat. It’s going to take federal intervention to stop this stuff at the state level, and most Democrats understand that…it’s still a mystery why two of them won’t get onboard with saving our democracy.
Cancel Culture.
Did they cancel “bigotry” too?
True story: My new congressional district is about 100 yards wide at its narrowest point. It won’t save you, Beth Van Duyne. We’re still coming for your dumb, bigoted ass.
Also, this is a really well done complaint.
Ergo, in a 5-4 decision, it will be rejected.
Oh, is the Supreme Court bad now? I had not heard that before.
If only there were some sort of congressional Act that protected voting rights, not sure what we would call it though…
The Dumbzig Corridor!
Its second narrowed choke point appears to be about 200 yards wide.
14th Amendment: The states, like the federal government, cannot “deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws .
This amendment has been “interpreted” by the Supreme Court to give protective rights to corporations, but not equal protection for a citizen’s rights to equal representation in our government.