Carl said expressed concerns Wednesday about a federal review of Alabama's congressional maps and the possibility that remains in splitting his district.
after a breakfast speech before the Mobile Chamber, referring to the new congressional map redrawn by the Republican-dominated state House and Senate last month.That map keeps Mobile and Baldwin counties within the 1st congressional district as compact “communities of interest” based on their shared geography and economic ties to the Gulf Coasts.
Carl said he has the same concerns, noting that he recently spoke before a group of approximately 100 engineers who work at the Airbus manufacturing complex in Mobile. He said of those 100, approximately half lived outside of Mobile County. Alabama was forced to redraw its congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court, in a surprising move in June, upheld the panel’s findings. The high court agreed that Alabama, with just one majority Black district out of seven in a state with one-fourth of its residents Black, likely violated federal law.
Carl said he was frustrated with the focus on racial demographics determining the outcome of congressional redistricting and “federal programs” in general. The plaintiffs, including Chestnut of Mobile, argue that it’s possible to draw a map that includes two majority Black districts – even if means splitting the coastal counties.
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