Republican leaders lack basic math
This is such horrible commentary for Louisiana Education that no one is calling this out. When you look at how voter registration data is spread out for the state, you see that white voters make up 62% and black voters make up 31%.
You also notice that Republicans make up 36% and democrats make up 36% and no party makes up 28%.
If we have 6 congressional districts and we randomly threw everyone's name into 6 buckets, statistically speaking white people should have majority of 4 buckets and black people should have majority of 2 buckets. But while we are so focused on the black majority districts, there's a whole group of white democrats that are going to be the swing votes this year. The 2 districts that are majority black are not charity gives. There's no minimum quota we were trying to reach. Those 2 seats were because they literally make up 1/3 of the population. While white people make up the other 2/3, notice that republicans are also only 1/3. That critical but everyone is ignoring it for some reason. There are just as many total registered republicans as their are total registered black voters. Read that again. Republicans are entitled to no more districts that black voters are. Giving Republicans even just a 3rd district makes the total a statistical anomaly which means they have violated gerrymandering or racial bias policies. Giving black voters any less than 2 districts ALSO means they have violated the SC decision.
If the supreme court says you can't draw lines to favor racial bias, the 2 black districts were not a result of racial bias. THAT IS LITERALLY HOW MANY ARE IN THE POPULATION. If we redraw the lines to make 3 black districts, THAT would violate the Supreme court's ruling, but black voters are entitled to 2 districts.
because here's the part no one is acknowledging. You can think of voting districts as a closed system. Each district gets just under 500,000 voters to represent just under 3 million total registered voters.
When you take 2 black districts that are statistically supposed to be there and you start drawing lines to reduce the number of black voters, because it's a closed system, that means you have to move white voters into the district if their goal is to have all white-majority districts. Statistically speaking, it is impossible to have 6 white majority districts unless a bias is taking place, either gerrymandering or drawing lines based on race. Drawing lines to make sure white people out number black people IS DRAWING LINES BASED ON RACIAL BIAS. That is more of a violation of the SC decision than having 2 black districts which statistically are supposed to be there.
Any map that Republicans bring forth that does not have at least 2 black majority districts OR at least 2 Democrat majority districts, that means the maps are invalid.
Louisiana Republicans as well as the Supreme court and especially KKK landry should all take a basic population stats course because their thought process is 100% inaccurate and they need to be called out. When you combine all the "non republican" voters, that is 2/3 of the population, or 4 out of 6 districts, yet those registered as "republicans" think they are entitled to 6 out of 6 districts. Like what the fuck planet are they from?
Let me repeat. Maps with 2 black districts are statistically accurate. If you start adding voters to a 3rd district until you have majority, that would be a violation of the SC decision. But when you also start moving black voters OUT of black majority districts so that white voters are the majority, that is ALSO a violation of the SC decision..
Why don't they see this? We need to round up some math professors or some statistics people to testify and point out that we have to look at this from a whole picture perspective. The table included here should be the baseline in making decisions. this bullshit of started from a 6 red 0 blue split is insane.