In the early 1990s, a furor erupted over attempts to carve out two or possibly three “majority-black” congressional districts in the state of Georgia. As the controversy mounted, all the usual charges and countercharges filled the air. When liberals argued that racial redistricting was necessary to make up for a long train of abuses, conservatives […]
Daniel Lazare
Daniel Lazare is the author of The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution Is Paralyzing Democracy.
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Antigovernment, Texas Style
Now in Russia, they got it mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else. That’s the theory, anyway. But what I know about is Texas, and down here you’re on your own. –Joel and Ethan Coen, Blood Simple (1984) P ressed as to why his state had been so slow to take advantage of […]