Looking for a puzzle? Try putting South Carolina’s gerrymandered districts back together.
series is made possible by the support of Slate Plus members and readers like you.District is a straightforward racial gerrymander, a majority-minority district that serves two purposes. First, it means that black voters can elect a black representative . Increasing minority representation in Congress was a key goal of the Voting Rights Act.
District encompasses majority-black areas around Charleston and Columbia, as well as the state’s historical black belt. This district is a relic of the 1990s, when Southern Republicans joined with black Democrats to create majority-minority districts for mutual gain. For most of this decade, Republicans held the state’s six other congressional districts.
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