"We can't allow Black votes to count"

In response to their orange master's command, Republipigs nationwide are trying to "redraw" Congressional district maps. The Trump lackey Supreme Court just killed the Voting Rights Act, which has emboldened them.

Accordingly, the governors of Alabama and Tennessee have just announced an "emergency" redistricting move. They've canceled the primaries for the time being and plan to issue executive orders to carve up majority Black districts. There isn't time to pass the new maps through even their very compliant legislatures, and there would surely be court challenges. Taking a page from the Turd's playbook, they hope to do-si-do around those pesky courts with executive orders.

The quotation that is the title of this thread was from a listener who called in to an Alleybammer MAGA talk show this morning. The censor who was supposed to put call-ins on the usual fifteen-second delay to filter out naughty words had a hangover and let this slip through. Or maybe it was deliberate. He surely stated what all white Alabama voters are thinking!

The coming blue wave and Trump's orders are causing the Republipigs to abandon the law as well as common decency.

Source?

New York Times Sunday (today). Behind a paywall, unfortunately, so I can't share the link.

This was also mentioned on NPR in Eugene and Portland during a radio interview. I don't know if it was a regional or national content broadcast.

I tried to find the talk show in Alabama where this took place, but the trouble is, there are at least eight to choose from, and I'd have to listen to all of them. Furthermore, this statement was probably edited out in any recording or rebroadcast. It's not the sort of thing they allow to go on the air, even in the Deep South.

Nobody is saying blacks can't vote

Florida will probably elect a black governor & SC has a black senator. 

The US elected a black man twice to be president & a black woman to be VP

But Kevin thinks black people are incapable of getting elected on their own merits 

So who really the racist?

The Democrats will also scramble to redraw their districts in at least 4 states before the 2028 elections if not before. So there's reciprocal partisan redistricting ( eg cracking / packing / cheating if you prefer that descriptor) efforts by both parties and it's been that way since the founding. In fact, SCOTUS has issued dozens of decisions regarding this topic since 1962. The court again reemphasized that racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional and that, OTOH, partisan gerrymandering per se has been and will continue to be a state court issue that SCOTUS ( and other federal courts) won't consider ( since a SCOTUS ruling in 2019).

Both party's ubiquitous quest for electoral power and power maintenance will be hyper -engaged following this SCOTUS decision. Your suggested "coming blue wave" might materialize...we'll see. Regardless the decision will serve as more fuel for political polarization. The caller you referred to was simply an idiot and I'd disagree that all white voters in Alabama agree with his comment. Did you actually see the outcome of that particular poll, or was that just a biased comment?

https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/02/the-gerrymandering-mess 

 Lewis is aghast as Republicans copy the DemocRAT playbook and redraw district maps. How dare they! DemocRATs have cheated in many states. According to Google today  -- Based on 2024–2026 redistricting analyses, Illinois is frequently cited as the most aggressive example of Democratic congressional gerrymandering, while New York, California, and New Jersey have also faced scrutiny for maps that favor Democratic incumbents  --- 

And Texas started it. Florida, Missouri, and other red-fuck states have followed.

The difference is that the blue states let their voters decide, The red-fuck states issued decrees.

Yes, stupid Tom, nobody said that, including that idiot caller. If you had reading skills, you would perceive that the desire of MAGA is for Black votes to NOT COUNT. As is, dilute them by redistricting.

What you say "Kevin thinks" is a lie.

Stupid Tom thinks that the South isn't racist.

Stupid Tom.

I didn't mention any poll. Nor did I say that "ALL" white voters thought the way he evidently does. HOWEVER, they consistently elect the type of evil legislators who use their power to stifle the Black vote and/or outright disenfranchise them. And they've been doing that since 1865! Southern whites, for the most part, still hate and loathe Black people and think they should still be slaves. And the Republipigs have gleefully tied into that sentiment, with SCOTUS waving the KKK banner in their recent decision that destroyed the Voting Rights Act.

Ain't it convenient that SCOTUS pastes the "racial gerrymandering" label onto majority Black districts, usually urban, and of course in red states, while doing a Pontius Pilate whenever they hear a case about overall egregious gerrymandering, like in Texas? SCOTUS is making no secret of their unwavering fealty to Trump, MAGA, and the Republipig party!

The blue wave will definitely happen--historically, the party in the White House almost always loses House seats in the midterms--but its magnitude is yet to be determined. If the Turd war and/or its aftermath is still in play in Novermber, it will be a bloodbath. Ditto if the economy is still in the crapper and gas and food prices are still sky-high. If those things are fixed/go away, then the Republipigs won't get hurt that badly and may retain control of the House; they will probably retain the Senate no matter what.

Your observation that "this has been happening" for many years contains an inaccuracy. Texas is the first state to try egregious gerrymandering between censuses. It's also the first state to not bother to ask its voters. The really ridiculous part is MAGA yeeping over California reciprocating, albeit via democratic means (voting!).

The Republipigs want to destroy our democracy, and they just may succeed. Texas, for example, has about a 55:45 Republican:Democrat voter ratio, but the new districting means they will have an 8:1 advantage in House seats. That's about as far from democracy as you can get.

And Texas started it. Florida, Missouri

Illinois, NJ, Ca and NY started it years ago.  Even though New England is 40% Republican, there aren't any Republcan congressman but 21 Democrats.

The Republicans are just catching up