Peter Welch: “Louisiana has proposed a map that will only have one African…”

“The effect of this decision, I do believe, will be monumental for many of our fellow citizens in the south, particularly in Louisiana, as I mentioned, a third of the population is black. Joe Biden won 40% of the vote. Yet after Calis, Louisiana has proposed a map that will only have one African American representative in Congress out of six House members. South Carolina, very much the same thing. A quarter of the population is African American. The redistricting would leave South Carolina in all likelihood with literally no black representation in a congressional out of 10 congressional districts.” (04:20–04:28)

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