The first map adopted by Republican state lawmakers in 2022 consisted of five majority-White congressional districts and one majority-Black district, though roughly one-third of the state's population is Black. The group of Black voters and civil rights groups challenged that plan's legality, argu...
States must redraw congressional and legislative lines every 10 years to account for population shifts. In most states, lawmakers control the process, allowing them to manipulate districts to create partisan advantage in a practice known as gerrymandering. Only four states, including hea...
thin line east, along the Mississippi state border. The district is low-income and the most rural in the state, and votes like a typical Deep South district. It is 63% White and 33% Black. Former Congressional and gubernatorial staffer Luke Letlow (1979-2020) was elected with 62% in an...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked the use of newly drawn congressional maps in Louisiana that include only one mostly Black district, and she ordered the Legislature to come up with a remedial plan by June 20.Kevin Mcgill, The Associated Press Jun 6, 2022 2:59 PM ...
Now lawmakers will likely have to come back in a special session to do it all over again. Critics argue that the population of the state is about 33% black and that population should be represented in our congressional districts. 75 Of The Most Famous People From Louisiana ...
Louisiana has six congressional districts and is represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by four Republicans and two Democrats. Louisiana had eight votes in the Electoral College for the 2020 election. In a 2020 study, Louisiana was ranked as the 24th hardest state for citizens to vote...
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Republicans have stood by their statements that the map is fair, and argue that trying to include the state’s widely dispersed Black population in two separate congressional districts would result in two districts with very narrow Black majorities that could actually diminish Blac...
The Supreme Court grappled Monday with a years-old, messy legal battle over Louisiana’s congressional districts during an oral argument in which several of the court’s conservatives questioned whether the state had violated the Constitution because of its focus on race...
Census of Population and Housing 1980: Summary Tape File 3H Congressional Districts of the 99th Congress [MRDF] Summary Tape File 3H of the 1980 U.S. census consists of one file for each of 10 states: California Hawaii Louisiana Maine Mississippi Montana New Jersey N... NUSB Ofcensus - ...