POLITICS AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS
Justin Jones Wants Black Voters to See the Bigger Fight Behind Tennessee’s New Map
When Tennessee Republicans divided Nashville among three congressional districts in 2022, the move dismantled a Democratic bastion. Just four years later, Memphis got a similar treatment. Republican lawmakers in May approved a new congressional map that cracked Memphis, gutting the state’s only remaining Democratic congressional seat. For state Rep. Justin Jones, 31, a Nashville Democrat […] The post Justin Jones Wants Black Voters to See the Bigger Fight Behind Tennessee’s New Map appeared first on Capital B News.
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