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When you have one of the most conservative SCs in history telling you to redraw the lines, you know shit's fucked up. Alabama doesn't care. It's the armpit of the south. Sorry if you're from Alabama, but you know what your state is.
Mississippi in shambles
...more than usual, at any rate
Seriously though, I lived in Mobile and Mississippi was on another level.
Alabama has Huntsville and Auburn and B'Ham that have genuinely good universities and some diversity.
Mississippi has Brett Favre and Elvis. And Elvis moved the hell out as soon as he could.
Special court appointed master already has drawn two black districts. Fucking cope Alabama.
One of these days, Alabama will do something good of its own volition, and we won't have to drag them kicking and screaming away from being racist.
Some day.
Also SCOTUS has been stacked to side with these people, but are taking plenty of heat for a while do this is for now, to prove they’re not corrupt pieces of garbage, until the slow businessmen’s plot completes.
More people need to look at the history of that and where those guys went after they got stopped and only got a slap on the wrist.
Sorry, could you please expound a bit?
Oh dude, you're in for a ride.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot#:~:text=The%20Business%20Plot%20
They went on to become big allies with wealth ministry protestants. (Now days we call them evangelists) And used that alliance to slowly push back FDR's New Deal.
Oh. Yeah I know that, it’s been a while and it’s still happening apparently. I was distracted, my b