A federal judge says some of Georgia’s congressional, state Senate and state House districts are racially discriminatory, ordering the state to draw an additional Black-majority congressional district.
Pundits have been talking for the last thirty years about the coming decline of the GOP thanks to shifting demographics, and yet they’re still here and going strong. Demographics do not matter to a party that views true representational democracy as an obstacle to their acquisition and maintenance of power.
I’d argue we’re already seeing that decline. They lost Georgia. The best they could do in the midterms, where they had the perfect environment, was effectively tie.
Pundits have been talking for the last thirty years about the coming decline of the GOP thanks to shifting demographics, and yet they’re still here and going strong. Demographics do not matter to a party that views true representational democracy as an obstacle to their acquisition and maintenance of power.
I’d argue we’re already seeing that decline. They lost Georgia. The best they could do in the midterms, where they had the perfect environment, was effectively tie.