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This year could produce the largest loss of Black political representation ever. Here’s why

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disappearing by 2020.

The rapid moves now by Republican-controlled Southern states to eliminate congressional districts held by Black Democrats is resurfacing this inequity in a new form, Podhorzer argued. Using data from the voter files maintained by Catalist, a Democratic targeting firm, he’s calculated that in 2024, a Black voter in one of the seven continue reading …

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