Related Columns Documents WASHINGTON, July 10, 2013 ― The reasonable assumption that states once mired in racial ugliness would make painstakingly slow progress toward racial equality is the central reason why the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) was passed. Yet that is not the reason the VRA was reauthorized by Congress so many times since. Rather, the VRA was amended over the decades to institutionalize a practice which both Democrats and Republicans believe helps them stay in office: racial gerrymandering to create “majority-minority” districts. SEE RELATED: For white men, affirmative action is a boon not a boondoggle Democrats like packing Congressional districts heavily with...
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