[Slewfoot]

Since Shaw v. Reno in 1993, the Supreme Court has sharply curtailed the drawing of bizarrely shaped majority-black districts.

Right

[Malcolm]

LOL; at least the GA Dems are talented at modern art.....

[CPT Clay]

13 is certainly bizzare!

[mhking]

Believe it or not, of all those weirdly shaped districts, only two, the more normal shaped 5th (mostly intown Atlanta and central Fulton County), and the elongated 12th (from Athens to near Savannah) are the only majority black districts in the state.

All those other weirdly shaped districts were drawn in the way they were in order to protect Dem incumbents, and to maximize the possibility of Dems being elected in other districts. The 7th, 8th, 11th, and 13th in particular being addressed. If those four districts were drawn normally, three of those four seats would almost certainly go GOP.

You can thank Gov. Roy "King Roy" Barnes and House Speaker Tom "I'll be here until I die" Murphy for that.