Planning the Next Great Migration

North Carolina too has been aggressively gerrymandered, with a heavy, intentional racial component, and the legislature makes reducing the number as well as the effect of African-American votes one of its highest priorities. You can presume that a legislature designed to deprive African-American urbanites of political influence will not be fully dedicated to ensuring that urbanites’ needs are met as things go downhill. Moderate and liberal voters’ working to spread themselves more thinly across the landscape could benefit them substantially, though unfortunately, there don’t seem to be too many safe and affordable places for them to go.

 

 

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