This gerrymandering HAS GOT TO STOP! ( The 20 Most Gerrymandered Congressional Districts)

[JoeyT]

64. Yeah, I dunno about any of the others,

but my district (Alabama's 7th) is 61% African American and 72% urban. That's a hell of a trick in Alabama.

Matter of fact, if you look at the bottom left section of it, you'll notice the long tails sticking out. Those are heavily minority areas. It's why they included Wilcox (71% African American) and Marengo (52% African American) with Birmingham (62.5% African American), but didn't include all the smaller cities around Birmingham, which are predominately white. Birmingham alone shifting into the next district would knock a Republican out of congress. Tuscaloosa (College town) probably would too.

Basically if you can force everyone that might vote for your opponents into a single district, you can control all the rest of them.

Edited to add: So you can see how far off those numbers in that district are: Alabama as a whole is 26% African American.