So when, after losing a seat, Alabama attempts to replicate the previous map (1 majority minority district, and one with a thin white majority), but fails, they’re slaver overlords.
But when Virginia takes a 55/45 split and turns it into a 10:1 allocation, it’s a perfectly justifiable pre-emption of Trump’s future actions?
I grew up in North Alabama. Live here now. I remember the Klan in the streets. When you grow up with things that have been a certain way a long time and you are brainwashed to believe "It's just always been like this", you belive it until you're older and you start to wonder why you believe that obviously women are stupid and look at all the astronauts and engineers and government officials: all white men. Has to be because they're the most qualified, right?
I thought things always gradually got better since I lived through desegregation and women like my mom being able to have a credit card and bank account in her own name and even own property! Kids weren't routinely birthed stillborn like my mother's older brother and I didn't die of an easily preventable childhood disease at the age of five as did my aunt Catherine. We had penicillen and you didn't have to worry so much about gangrene every time you got a slight cut or dying from a fever from a bacteriological infection. Since my mother was born, everything has gradually gotten better for me and mine every year. For 85 years!
But then you read history and you find out things can backslide. My grandparents were doing well and then the Great Depression hit. You find out that just because the South lost the Civil War, that didn't mean the Slavers disappeared. No, they came back by force, not votes and they have been in power since at least 1901 in Alabama. With most white support. Even though they starve our economy and deny us healthcare and don't prosecute companies who bring cancer to our children. Not to mention refusing to give us overwhelmingly popular and beneficial things like decriminalizing marijuana. Gotta fill those Private Prisons and concentration camps. All while depriving our children an education lottery.
We're not as Red a State as the propaganda would have us believe. Oh yeah, we're maybe 50-50 but Siegleman had to be jailed (ok, he was a crook but the PTB today make him look like a saint!) to keep Alabama from electing him. Karl Rove figured out it would take only $10 million to buy our (the Alabama) Supreme Court. A pittance for a whole State!
Still, we're still firmly in the grip of Republican power and they see no real need to delegitimize themselves further to run up the score. Although they are sorely tempted, as we've seen. They're just too scared to defy their own Party's Court. As of right now. Fig leaf, you know.
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