Alabama's lieutenant governor posted a 7-0 Republican gerrymander

[In It to Win It]

Stephen Wolf
‪@stephenwolf.bsky.social‬

Alabama’s lieutenant governor, who also serves as president of the state Senate, posted a 7-0 Republican gerrymander calling for his party to eliminate both Black Democrats.

Every seat on a map like this would be dark red and heavily white

Alabama’s Republican legislative leaders say they want a chance to gerrymander both Black Democrats out of their congressional seats to elect 7 (white) Republicans.

When calling the special session, Gov. Kay Ivey had mentioned reverting to a 6-1 map like Alabama had before a court overturned it

— Stephen Wolf (@stephenwolf.bsky.social) 2026-05-02T22:58:27.826Z

[sop]

1. Why don't they just bring back the "jelly bean test" and be done with it?

A tactic used by vote registrars in the South, forcing Black citizens to guess the exact number of jelly beans in a jar before they could register to vote.

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2. If it's implemented, wouldn't it be great to see them lose 7?

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In the current climate, I'm not so sure a 23 pt advantage is enough. And the felon's criminal war on Iran is not ending as long as he is in the WH.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. In this day and age, and at my age after so many successes in the fight against discrimination (all types), it guts me

to see this happen in this day and age. tRUMP has been a plague on this Country and we must take it back.