And so up until so from. I forgot when this started, but one important part of the Voting Rights act was that States like Texas and other states throughout the state south had to, every time they would redistrict after every census, they had to submit their maps for pre-approval. pre approval. They couldn't even go into effect automatically, so they had to submit it for pre approval because they had such a history of racism that they had to … (06:37–06:53)
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