Fortune 500 Companies Funding the Political Resegregation of US
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Fortune 500 Companies Funding the Political Resegregation of US
Over the past four to five years, the United States has been resegregated — politically. In states where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans and presidential races can be nail-biters, skillful Republican operatives have mounted racially-minded gerrymandering efforts — the redrawing of congressional and state legislative districts — that have led to congressional delegations stacked with GOP members and yielded Republican majorities in the state legislatures.
In North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Ohio, to name just three, GOPers have recast state and congressional districts to consolidate black voters into what the political pros call “majority-minority districts” to diminish the influence of these voters. North Carolina is an especially glaring example: GOP-redistricting after the 2010 elections led to half the state’s black population — 1.1 million people — being corralled into one-fifth of the state legislative and congressional districts. “The districts here take us back to a day of segregation that most of us thought we’d moved away from,” State Sen. Dan Blue Jr., who was previously North Carolina’s first black House speaker, told the Nation in 2012.
http://billmoyers.com/2014/11/26/meet-fortune-500-companies-funding-political-resegregation-america/
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We desperately need to reform the process of drawing up districts -- probably the best way would be bipartisan districting panels.
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Resegregation is inevitable when you have gerrymandering. But of course it's open racism, but because it is ensconced in a political concern, it's somehow okay.
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