Kandy

.@EWErickson is one of the few conservative voices who consistently opposed Republicans screwing around with the VRA districts. I remember getting into arguments with even Black Republicans over how stupid this strategy was. Most of these southern states have large Black populations. The VRA districts were the detente between the Black and white political dynamics in the South. When Republicans betrayed that, it made Black voters feel like they no longer had a seat at the table under Republican governance and lashed out en masse. Which is EXACTLY what I told many of you would happen. I am not from the south, but my family is and several members of my family from the great migration generation are still alive today. As a result I have a certain level of sensitivity and consciousness of those dynamics and that ain’t nothing to play with. It also didn’t just anger Black people in the south. It had a reverberating effect everywhere