Arkansas, a Demographic Challenge for Democrats

[Gass3268]

I don't understand why Arkansas doesn't have at least one African-American majority congressional district (probably would be concentrated in the Arkansas Delta) like other southern states.  Isn't it under the sway of the Voting Rights Act which mandates that?

Even if you connect the Arkansas Delta up to Little Rock though Pine Bluff, you only get a district that is 36.4% African-America. Possibly enough for an opportunity of an American-American Rep, but there is really no way for a majority district.

[Gass3268]

I don't understand why Arkansas doesn't have at least one African-American majority congressional district (probably would be concentrated in the Arkansas Delta) like other southern states.  Isn't it under the sway of the Voting Rights Act which mandates that?

Even if you connect the Arkansas Delta up to Little Rock though Pine Bluff, you only get a district that is 36.4% African-America. Possibly enough for an opportunity of an American-American Rep, but there is really no way for a majority district.

Are there not enough liberal whites in the area to make up the difference? 

Obama won it by like 55% in 2008, but because the AA number is so low there is no legal need to a VRA district.