Louisiana Republicans are trying to minimize the number of Black voters who count as, well, Black.
To overcome this remaining hurdle, Louisiana Republicans are trying to minimize the number of Black voters who count as, well, Black.
They claim that those who identify as multiracial — say, Black and Latino or Black and Asian — were wrongly used to bolster the calculations for Black minority opportunity zones.
“This is Jim Crow-era stuff — a state with a Black population of over 30% has a single Black member of Congress.
“Southern states with large Black populations want to control where the Black voters are represented and how.