“Using Race (Again) in the Struggle for Political Mastery”

Michael Curtis:

After their victories in 2010 state legislative elections, Republicans reapportioned a number of state legislatures. They drew districts so that, for later elections, a minority or slim majority of Republican voters for Congress or the state legislature could produce a super-majority of Republican legislators. Since most blacks vote Democratic, Republican legislators often gerrymandered using race. They claimed justification under the Voting Rights Act. North Carolina is an instructive example of the technique.

According to Thomas Edsall, some Republicans have privately expressed the goal of creating a white (majority) party and a black (minority) party.

 

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