US House Redistricting: Mississippi

[Bacon King]

In case anyone cares, the redistricting map for the Mississippi House has been released, and as expected, it targets white Democrats by increasing black majority districts:

Of course...there's an unholy alliance in the south between black Democrats and Republicans.

Not as common as it's made out to be, fwiw. More often, the black democrats are uninvolved bystanders who coincidentally benefit from Republican mapmakers because it's convenient to make the legally-required VRA districts to be the Dem-packed districts their gerrymander needs.

The only time actual collusion happened in the Georgia Assembly was in the creation of the maps used 92-94; once they saw the electoral aftermath, the leaders of the black caucus were very apologetic to the rest of the party.

[Bacon King]

If increasing the number of Black seats is considered a worthy goal, then why is any more problematic to eliminate White Democratic districts than White Republican districts?

It's not, in and of itself. What sickens me is when Black Democrats enable Republican gerrymanders, either for this purpose or to shore up their existing incumbents.

Why the vitriol over something that, like I said before, happens so rarely? Besides, it's not like white democrats don't collaborate with Republicans on redistricting just as often; they're just more likely to switch parties in the process.