Can Stacy walk through the math of how states with large black populations have so little representation for their black citizens? I feel an undercurrent recently where people are blaming the targets of voter suppression rather than the perpetrators. 56% of black Americans live in the South. that has meant that disproportionately black elected officials in the congressional levels come from the South. But the problem still is that those who do not value those votes are Like, quote, use it or lose it. (07:31–07:35)
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Asserts that a majority of black Americans reside in the Southern United States.
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