The Republicans have leaned into good ole fashioned voter repression, propaganda, Black disenfranchisement, carcerality, and state terror to maintain its stronghold. This is the Southern strategy, a tactic that has served white supremacist, right-wing agendas since the crushing of Radical Reconstruction in the 19th century. Read more via Scalawag: Let Us Explain: Gerrymandering.
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