The Democrats' Jim Crow Rhetoric Was Never About Protecting Minority Districts

For decades, lawmakers relied on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to engineer so-called majority-minority districts across the South. That came to a screeching halt last month when the Supreme Court ruled in Louisiana v. Callais that race-based gerrymandering conflicts with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Republican states immediately responded by taking steps to eliminate the districts that were now unconstitutional. Democrats in Washington responded with accusations that Republicans were eliminating minority representation in Congress, likening the GOP redistricting efforts to “Jim Crow.”

But Democrats don’t really care about majority-minority districts. Honestly, I’ve never believed they cared, but now we have receipts.