venerable by diluting their majority. I certainly do not think it was because they were concerned about the black vote.
I'm hoping the same situation (conservative dilution) happens in Texas and their discriminatory efforts fall flat.
It will all depend on turnout!!

They got a case of arithmetic.

It has everything to do with calculus.

These are the same MFers who passed laws letting the state legislature take over the Atlanta prosecuror's office. These are the same MFers who passed all the leading edge voter disenfranchisement laws, putting them at the forefront of 21st century Jim Crow.

There is one and only one reason they aren't going further with their gerrymanders. And that is because they are afraid. You can only gerrymander so much. And when you get to that point, you put "safe" districts into play. In a different election cycle they would crank up the redistricting with no conscience at all. But none of them wants to be the one who pushed for the "Great Gerrymander of 2026 that LOST seats".

In some Southern states, to be allowed to vote, voters were made to pass a literacy test. One legend has it that whites were shown a local rag with an some innocuous headline saying like "rain expected tomorrow." Blacks were handed a newspaper in Chinese. One election day, some black dude walks into the polling place, and is told that he has to pass a literacy test, so he says, fine, go ahead. He is given the Chinese newspaper and asked if he can read the headline, and he says, "sure, I can read that." The incredulous poll worker asks, "you can read that?" The guy says sure, he can read that. "What does it say?" asks the poll worker. The black dude says, "it says that here is one black guy who won't be allowed to vote this year."