March 1, 2022
The redistricting plan expands the territory of the state’s only majority-Black U.S. House district because the 2020 census showed the district—the 2nd—lost population. But it does so in a way that the incumbent, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, did not want. Photo courtesy U.S. House of Representatives
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Mississippi Remapping Diminishes Black Voices, NAACP Says
Mississippi legislators drew a congressional redistricting plan that diminished Black voters' influence in the state's three majority-white districts, attorneys for the NAACP and two other groups argue in federal court …
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