So it looks as if some members of the House Democratic Black Caucus aren’t as upset with their Republican counterparts as white Democrats would have you believe.
Democratic Rep. Charles Young attended a Meridian community meeting Monday where WTOK reports that Young said “all of the districts are very well grouped. I think the majority of them are very concise, very compact.” Young also stated, “We reduced the number of split precincts from the 400s to down to a little over a hundred. The number of minority districts has been increased.”
Notice the term “we.”
Young’s comments aren’t a surprise. Yes, he was one of the Democrats that voted against the House and Senate plans, as did all the Black Caucus members in the House. However, from the talk around the Capitol they overwhelmingly like the redistricting plans, recognize them as fair, and want to see the DOJ approve the maps in short order.
This goes a long way toward taking the sting out of a possible Democratic challenge while strengthening the Republican case that indeed these maps are viable.
