Mississippi Senate Approves New Map to Boost Black Voting Power
JACKSON — Mississippi lawmakers are working to redraw the lines of a state senate district that two federal courts ruled dilutes black voting power. Senate District 22, which stretches 100 miles across six counties, is majority African American but has a white Republican senator, Buck Clarke of Hollandale.
On Tuesday, the state Senate approved a new map, which would only affect District 22 and the neighboring Senate District 13. If the House also passes the Senate's redistricting plan, it would go into effect before this year's statewide elections.
"I'm very supportive of the plan," Sen. Willie Simmons, a black Democrat who represents District 13, told his colleagues on Tuesday.
The new map would raise the black voting-age population in Clarke's District to 58 percent, up from 51 percent.
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But there is one notable exception to these dour health stats: Mississippi has the highest vaccination rate for school-age children. It’s not even close. Last year, 99.7 percent of the state’s kindergartners were fully vaccinated. Just 140 students in Mississippi entered school without all of their required shots."
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How a college student exposed racial gerrymandering, prompted a lawsuit and forced Mississippi to redraw a voting district
By Adam Ganucheau
OXFORD — Late one night in May 2017, John Chappell, then a sophomore at the University of Mississippi, pulled out his laptop to research a hypothesis.
Chappell, an Albuquerque native, had just finished reading several books on voting rights and found a map of the legislative districts in his adopted home state. One district in particular stood out to him: Senate District 22, a section of the state zigzagging 120 miles southward from the Delta fields to the affluent Jackson suburbs.
He began writing down the individual voting precincts in the district and noting their racial demographics. He looked at similar demographics of precincts in neighboring districts. When he read the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required states like Mississippi with a history of race-based voting discrimination to get approval to change voting laws, he knew he was onto something.
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https://mississippitoday.org/2019/03/27/how-a-college-student-exposed-racial-gerrymandering-prompted-a-lawsuit-and-forced-mississippi-to-redraw-a-voting-district/?fbclid=IwAR1N5jtGWPwRCseG25c5b4gXlrWi2u1UIjou4IesSuyDbabd4NUaGQLs188
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