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jimrtex
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« on: January 14, 2011, 02:36:04 AM »
« edited: January 14, 2011, 11:26:44 AM by jimrtex »

Raising it to that high might be problematic in court, seeing as the district is "so extremely irregular on its face that it rationally can be viewed only as an effort to segregate the races for purposes of voting, without regard for traditional districting principles".

What is untraditional about a map like that in Alabama?

In 2000, AL-7 was 70.0% black and included an arm over towards Birmingham.  The 2000s redistricting dropped to 62.0%.

In 2000, AL-7 and AL-6 were 70.0% and 14.9%, after redistricting 62.0% and 26.0%.
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jimrtex
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« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2011, 07:51:36 PM »

So is the atrocious three-way split in Montgomery a race thing, or is it just to prevent a Bobby Bright comeback?

They probably just wanted to include Autaga and Elmore in AL-2 and needed a connector, while shoring up the the black percentages in AL-7 and AL-3.  They also appear to have tried to avoid splitting too many counties.
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