South Carolina, Tennessee Join Race to Redraw Congressional Maps
Lots could happen today in Tennessee!
After the Supreme Court struck down the Louisiana Congressional map, Tennessee and South Carolina have upped their efforts to redraw their maps.
SCOTUS voted down Louisiana’s map because the state relied too much on race when drawing districts. I see people claiming the justices limited the Voting Act but when you read it, it obviously aims to level the playing field. No one can give preference to any race. Also, the 15th Amendment.
Tennessee
Lawmakers voted 6-2-1 to advance legislation to “remove Tennessee’s current restriction on congressional redistricting between apportionments, moving the measure another step forward in the legislative process.”
The House & Senate passed the new map:
🚨 BREAKING: The Tennessee House has officially PASSED the new Congressional maps, which will ELIMINATE the state’s only Democrat district
And as expected, the Democrats in the chamber started SCREAMING and MELTING DOWN 🤣🔥
They’re like CHILDREN 😂🤡
KEEP THIS UP, GOP! pic.twitter.com/usIzUxhlfo
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 7, 2026
🚨 BREAKING — IT’S OFFICIAL: Tennessee’s new maps have PASSED the State Senate, and are on their way to be signed into LAW by Gov. Bill Lee
Leftist activists STORMED the Senate chamber and started SCREAMING, but Senators IGNORED them and passed the map 🤣
THIS IS HOW IT’S DONE! pic.twitter.com/2UKeJP0NNd
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 7, 2026
BREAKING — Tennessee Republicans have released their proposed 9-0 congressional map. pic.twitter.com/4jrKGiXXv0
— VoteHub (@VoteHub) May 6, 2026
The map would eliminate the lone Democratic seat, making Tennessee a pure red state.
Thing is…Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen, a white male, represents the 9th District.
Psssst, Hakeem.
Steve Cohen ain't black, brother. https://t.co/6GF2BPsPIb pic.twitter.com/Jyur5zfdOb
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) May 6, 2026
In fact, Cohen has defeated a black Republican female in 2022 and 2024.
So is it really about race? Obviously not.
Can’t wait for you to vote for GOP candidate Charolette Bergmann over white Dem Steve Cohen.
You’re gonna vote for her, right? Since race is such a cardinals issue for you? pic.twitter.com/yxlAN4eJ9v
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 2, 2026
The Senate and House placed the measure on their calendars for today.
South Carolina
The South Carolina House voted 87-25 to add redrawing the state’s Congressional map to a resolution outlining what the legislature can do when its session ends on May 14.
House Republican leadership plans to draw a map ASAP, even though it would require a 2/3 vote in the Senate to allow off-session debate.
The idea is to make the state 7R – 0D. Right now, Rep. Jim Clyburn is the only Democrat holding a seat in South Carolina.
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I doubt the rhinos in SC will allow Clyburn to lose his seat.
They love that piece of trash.
It is high time for Clyburn to walk through his corridor of shame and fade away into irrelevance.
The same with fried chicken Cohen. He’s moaning about losing any democrat party representation in his state (i.e- his seat) but meanwhile gerrymandered Massachusetts only has far left progressive democrat representation. He doesn’t seem to care about that.
New England, all 6 states has 1 Republican that holds national office and Sen Susan Collins isn’t exactly a Trumper. This despite Republicans comprising 40-45% of the voters so cry me a friggen river. Texas followed it’s Constitution in mid session redistricting and Newsome was the one that got this tit for tat rolling. I bet Dems regret that now.
Yep. No lectures from d/prog or anyone else about ‘fairness’.
Newscum even said je was redistricting to reduce republican reps because of Texas. Now the should be considered illegal gerrymandering.
Assuming you meant “that”, why should that be considered illegal? He had the numbers to amend the state constitution, so he did; there’s nothing illegal about that.
There is the evidence that the new map was drawn with racial considerations in mind, but it’s not conclusive and the courts that considered it rejected it. The GOP can try to refile in light of the new circumstances, but it will go back to the same court which will probably still reject it. But the net outcome so far seems to favor us.
Strategically, it might be best to pack as many D’s as possible into his district. I don’t know SC all that well.
Good to see the GOP getting in the game at the state level. The GOPe in Congress should take note that we’re demanding they use power to advance causes they claim to support. If we can get Cornyn’s scalp in a few weeks, then it’ll be a good start.
Regarding redistricting at least the States have been ‘in the game’. The roadblock in the mostly red deep South has been the neo reconstructionist judicial interpretations of the VRA. Until SCOTUS shut it down in Shelby County most were under a regime of ‘pre clearance’ which forced them to effectively ask permission to redraw maps then get those maps reviewed in advance before implementation. When ended in 2013 States were able to scrutinize/purge bad voter registration data, implement voter ID and other secure elections policies. Now with Callias SCOTUS has removed the roadblock of mandatory ‘majority minority’ districts. There’s quite a bit of regional resentment in the South towards all the unfair and frankly unconstitutional hoops that were applied to the States of our region and there’s a groundswell of support to finally be able to remove the boot from our neck and freely run our own States.
Cornyn has tried to flip and flop from his RINO status to Mr Conservative but no one is buying it as there is a record of his votes. I think the national Republican Party got a rude and well deserved awakening in Indiana that the voters are fed up with milquetoast Rino’s that talk one way to get elected and then vote against what people sent them to office to do.
“I see some red states and I want them painted redder….”
Roll on Stone!
Combine the effect of this formerly unconstitutional, discriminatory, race-based voting district conceit, with the fact that states’ congressional apportionment is partly based on the presence of illegal aliens within states’ borders, and it becomes glaringly obvious how Dhimmi-crats’ congressional power has been hugely and unfairly artificially inflated, over decades, above what it fairly and rationally should have been — to the profound detriment of “red” states and their voters, who have seen their congressional political power unfairly diminished.
*formerly allegedly constitutional, discriminatory, …*
The only way to prevent the use of illegal aliens for the next (2032) reapportionment is to deport them before the 2030 Census. The Constitution makes clear that all resident persons are counted.
Democrats nationwide had no problem with democrats in the state of NM when they redrew their congressional map after Biden was elected to eliminate the sole red seat in the house. Since nearly half the population of the state lives in the Albuquerque metro area, they split it between two districts to dilute republican votes in the southern part of the state. Republicans sued, it went to the state supreme court who declared that even though it was obviously partisan gerrymandering, it wasn’t illegal.
Democrats are getting a taste of their own medicine and I have zero sympathy for them.
I f***ing love TN. It never gets old.
Well they give us Taylor Swift, didn’t they?
I’m on newsfeeds coming out of Wa and the commentors are fleeing like crazy. TN is a long way away but it’s major destination for those fleeing.
Red states should only permit one blue house seat. That’s one more seat than blue states like MA allow for opposition.
Every state is different. Sometimes it is best to pack the D’s into 1 or 2 districts. Other times it is best to spread the D’s out between districts so they don’t have any. Gerrymandering is done the way it has always been done – packing and cracking. The biggest danger is spreading your voters too thin to survive a bad cycle.
I don’t like it. Gerrymandering is undemocratic no matter who does it. I get that we are in an arms race with should-be-illegal gerrymandering from the disloyal opposition. My preference would be to stop theirs rather than join the fray, mostly because we will probably get our asses kicked, but also I don’t see what good comes of whipsawing voters from district to district whenever the wind blows. Tends to portray our constitutional democratic republic as some other thing, one that can’t be good.
Let the downvotes fly!
Democracies eventually come to this kind of fork in the road. The way out varies but the eventual way out is the one we really don’t want.
I agree in sentiment.
I’m also playing the worlds tiniest violin for the side that made it so we can’t have sentiment.
Presumably you’d still support undoing the existing odd shaped districts created via gerrymandering to enforce unconstitutionally created districts drawn to favor/disfavor based on racial identity?
Then there’s the additional factor in support of mid decade redistricting as a one off: population.
1. The 2020 census was flawed and created under counts in red States. Census Bureau itself admits their methodology created between a 5 to 8 CD net error in political representation.
2. Massive population shift post Covid as the ‘great sorting’ accelerated the ongoing population decline in big blue jurisdiction to red jurisdictions.
IOW given that there’s clear error using the eraser and better data to fix it now v letting not just a census error continue in force but an unconstitutional error remain unchecked. Doing nothing under these circumstances out of concern for misplaced principles is kinda like saying ‘I don’t like having to slam the brakes on my vehicle’ but given the reality of a 20 car pile up just ahead the consequences of refusing to apply the brake is far worse.
I’m tired of the high-road BS. If Democrats do it, and nobody will make it illegal, then we do it too. We are NOT going to get our asses kicked, because Democrats have been doing this for DECADES, and we have years of low-effort slack to take up. They have cities, but we own states.
Gerrymandering is undemocratic. Elbridge Gerry himself thought it was dishonorable, and opposed the “salamander” that was named for him. But it was lawful, so when his party in the legislature did it over his objections, he didn’t veto it. And it’s been a US tradition ever since.
Compare it to the senate “filibuster”. Originally regarded as so dishonorable that it was literally labeled an act of piracy, the fact that it’s been in place for so long, and that the senate has refused to abolish it for all that time, has made it legitimate and a US tradition, to the point where we now regard it as a vital part of our democracy, though oddly we still use the original pejorative name. I bet most people have no idea what the word “filibuster” means!
Also, making a law to ban gerrymanders is harder than it seems. Experience has shown that Dems manage to manipulate any such law to work to their advantage. Usually such laws rely on so-called nonpartisan commissions, but those tend to be dominated by Democrats, or are soon taken over by Democrats.
Democrats manipulate everything they touch.
Except it’s not. Democrats have been doing this crap for far too long, and every time Republicans let so-called ‘non-partisan committees’ draw maps they always magically favored Democrats.
You want a solution that doesn’t exist.
We are no longer going to PRETEND that Democrats aren’t doing it.
Tennessee votes higher % conservative than Massachusetts votes liberal, and yet Massachusetts hasn’t had a GOP rep in over 30 freaking years.
Liberals started this fight, and we’re no longer listening to people whining they don’t want there to be a fight.
Good! This is literally the only way the communist filth will ever figure anything out.
I live in SC and asked the Speaker and Majority Leader to fix the Congressional districts before June 9th. I am in Clyburn’s district and it is a mess. I want the districts to match up cities and counties. In Clyburn’s 6th it is like a spider in places and goes in and out of cities and counties.
Draw the districts as compact as possible to satisfy the population requirements the Constitution demands and the hell with race, religion, economic status, voter party. Just stop the crap. Dems decided to go scorched Earth after Texas followed it’s Constitution to do mid term re districting and started trying to change laws, rush past the Constitution both state and federal, gerrymander in the worst way like in VA. They wanted this and SCOTUS gave it to them good and hard. Dems know they are in big trouble because without racial gerrymandering they are looking at a 30 seat debacle come November.
More like two dozen CD ‘majority minority’ with some not undone till ’28 cycle but yeah. Add to that the CD in ’32 from reapportionment following 2030 Census which was poised to shift half a.dozen CD from blue to red States. Add in nutty tax policies in CA/NY and elsewhere driving even more individuals, employers and their employees out to the less taxed red States and the d/prog potential for power in HoR is severely damaged.
I’ve never given a damn about the cenus until this one. Now I’m thinking about throwing census parties!
Only if you live in a R-controlled state. I live in NYC, so I deliberately avoid the census. I don’t want NY to get extra representation for me.
So your solution is for Republicans to draw districts “fairly” when they’re in power, while the Democrats gerrymander the hell out of them when they’re in power?
That’s the GOPe “gracious losers” model.
Any time we have the power, we need to teach the Democrats a lesson. We won’t have it forever.
The federal constitution has no objection to gerrymandering, so long as it’s not based on race. It’s some state constitutions that act as barriers, which is why Dems have been trying to amend their states’ constitutions to allow a “temporary” gerrymander.
Georgia needs to redistrict and throw ole Hank “Capsize Guam” Johnson out.
Democrats!
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Sometimes gerrymandering can bite you in the rear. Grabbing more districts means spreading your own voters thinner. A big swing against your party, and suddenly you lose seats you assumed were “safe”.
I look at your example and see it as the basic way people would EXPECT such things to happen.
I am actually starting to get more worried about the Senate than the House. Several R’s are retiring, and the Iran war has made Nitrogen Fertilizer prices soar 70%. Combine that with a huge drought, and farmers are extremely unhappy right now.
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