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Divining the Demographic Terrain in Mississippi, Alabama Primaries Politics Mar 13, 2012 11:00 AM EDT ...

Instead, lawmakers passed another map that only marginally increased Black voters' share in a second district. Once again, the same three-judge panel reviewed Alabama's map.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, argued that the new map kept communities of interest intact, unifying the state’s so-called Black Belt, named for its fertile black soil.

UPDATE (July 18, 2023, 3:50 p.m.): On Tuesday, a Senate committee in Alabama passed a different congressional map from the one discussed below, but it has the s… ...

Alabama begins a special session to consider a new congressional voting map after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state's current map likely diluted the power of Black voters in Alabama.

A map of a Republican proposal to redraw Alabama’s congressional districts is displayed at the Alabama State House in Montgomery, Ala., on July 18. (Kim Chandler/AP) ...

Now Alabama is asking the justices to step in again as it argues that its 2023 map passes legal muster even if it doesn’t include a second majority-Black district. In a filing with the Supreme ...