Message from @Nuke
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My district, LA-1, is basically made of New Orleans suburbs.
his type need to be wiped off the face of the earth
Pretty much yeah
His best "scandal" ever was when they revealed he had some small ties to David Duke
>just slides into another 70% landslide reelection
Pretty much any scandal he's been into's been wiped out tenfold by that berniebro
good thing he made it past that
Yeah pretty much
Also, a recent surprise for me was that Louisiana didn't lose our seventh CD because of a decrease in population (due to Katrina)
It was actually just that our population didn't grow fast enough.
The first of those maps is kinda off. Why incorporate all those blacks on east bank Plaquemines into the swing district?
Plaquemines as a whole voted over 60% Trump.
And as a whole you could actually just throw those voters into the other district and it wouldn't even swing it red.
In fact, the population there is so small, you actually wouldn't have an issue with needing to shrink the district elsewhere, either.
The second map isn't actually as bad as it could be, either.
The worst case scenario is gerrymandering all of the Republicans into Acadiana, probably, since Louisiana is 60% Republican.
Outrageous gerrymander from the 90s
You just look at the map and go
wow
abominable
As you can expect, it was a Democratic district, and Louisiana had a Democratic government caused by Catholics feeling like David Duke would kill them.
He was admittedly unelectable at the time.
But in Louisiana today
He's probably electable statewide.
We have jungle primaries though
Like California
So moderates tend to win
Didn't Duke manage to obtain like 1/3 of the vote back then?
Pretty good share considering the reputation, honestly.
Yep, 55% of the white vote.
Completely defeated in the black vote, too.
And he defeated an incumbent Republican governor in the first round
Emerging in second place
31% and then 38%
Almost like Le Pen in France