US House Redistricting: South Carolina

[timothyinMD]

I'm sick of this disgraceful, race based gerrymandering.  That section of the VRA must be stricken.  It's archaic.   The notion that minorities must have their own "majority" seats is inherently biased, racist and segregationist

[timothyinMD]

That's right, Democrats took about 3/7th of the SC vote, so they should by right get about 3/7th of seats. Right?

A.  Dems didn't get 3/7th of the vote.

B. It doesn't work that way

[timothyinMD]

2010 Democrat House candidates got 40.09%

537,323 out of 1,340,189 = 40.09%

http://www.enr-scvotes.org/SC/19077/40477/en/summary.html

I assumed you referred to the congressional number. If you're talking about '08 Obama, yes he got 44.9% or whatever.    Under that logic, 36% of the Massachusetts vote went to McCain.  Where are our 3 house seats from Massachusetts?

[timothyinMD]

I'm pretty sure the Constitution says nothing of dividing congressional districts according to race.  Enough said.