James Clyburn could now find his district dismantled after supreme court effectively gutted Voting Rights ActSouth Carolina has had exactly one Black representative in Congress since 1897: James Clyburn. A proposal to redraw the state’s political map would dismantle the district he represents.The state’s sixth congressional district starts on its southern border with Georgia, in the suburbs of Savannah, moving a hundred miles north to wind around the heart of Charleston, before cutting through Black belt farmland to the state capital of Columbia, another 115 miles away. Continue reading...
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‘Jim Crow 2.0’: South Carolina’s Republicans move to oust state’s only Black congressman since 1897
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