Black Democrat Politicans and Conservative Leaning Republicans Working For Louisiana!!!

LOL

Ah this not so secret fun alliance is on full display again!!! It is redistricting time.

Here is the proposed plan for the new State Senate District( a good pdf that explains a lot) that is a joint venture between SENATOR ELBERT LEE GUILLORY (D-OPELOUSAS) and the
LOUISIANA FAMILY FORUM ACTION.

Yes I know the Louisiana Family Forum is not "Republican" but I suspect a lot of white democrats are getting heartburn seeing some of their districts are being drained of black voters. I suspect the GOP with its connections to the Family Forum has been consulted and thinks for the most part it is dandy.

Now of course I am not saying this is not a good plan but I highly suspect the result is highly beneficial to the two groups involved. I will try to leave my cynical hat for a while and give it a honest apprasial

More on this after I look at it in detail.


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Update 1
I actually like the map. It seems the districts are not too obscene in shape. Lets look at one of their talking point

Region of the State
The 2003 Redistricting of Louisiana’s Senate
Districts created twenty-nine majority White
districts and ten majority Black districts, with
five located in New Orleans.

The subsequent loss of population in Orleans
Parish enables a bold, fresh look at
how Black majority districts can be drawn in
population centers heretofore unrepresented
in the Senate by Blacks, such as Alexandria,
Lafayette and Bayou/River Region.

Rather than concentrate them in New Orleans,
the Guillory/LFFA Plan distributes ten
majority Black districts across seven regions
of the state: Northeast, Northwest, Central,
Acadiana, Capital, Bayou/River and Metro
New Orleans.

Five New Districts in the 2011
Re-Districting Plan

Five new districts are created including three
majority Black districts and two majority
White districts.

The three new majority Black districts are in
the Central, Acadiana and the Bayou/River
regions of Louisiana.

The two majority White districts are anchored
in East Baton Rouge Parish and Tangipahoa
Parish.

The Guillory/LFFA Plan represents a seismic
shift: moving majority Black districts out
of New Orleans in favor of a balanced, equitable
distribution throughout the state.

Ok. Well I think that is largely a postive in some ways. I need to look at a map and see how urban versus rural these new black majority districts are. I think having rural issues being represented by the members of the Black caucus is a net plus. Especially if you are in a rural area that sometimes feels like you are getting the shaft. So that increases our (rural folks) influence.

Update II- (See Update III)

Looking at this I should note that while Orleans Parish itself loses Senate Seats. METRO NEW Orleans appears to still have ten seats!!! . The same number of seats it had before if I am looking at the map right. Am I looking at the map wrong?

So a portion of the State that loses population in the big scheme of things still has a good bit of the power (the same) for their local interest. I am not sure how that happened. Maybe that is equitable Did everyone just move to Kenner? Funny how that worked out. So who is getting shorted here?

Update III
Ok as to the New Orleans Metro thing. They will be losing two Senate Districts. The confusion is the map because it is showing four elected official(the black majority districts) in two districts

Q. Does this Plan put senators who are not term-limited against each other?
A. Yes. Two districts in New Orleans would have incumbents.

Those districts and the racial make up of the new proposed Districts can be seen on page 21 of the pdf

Update VI-

It seems a major Republican District would be affected in NOLA under this plan. The very cute

Senator Julie Quinn - District 6 This District has never made sense to me. It takes in Uptown New Orleans and then very conservative North Shore way out across the Lake.

The new proposed District

Retains portion of Jefferson Parish
(30,000)
• Retains Uptown portion of Orleans and
adds portions of Districts 4 and 5 (84,000)
• 114,000. White/Black ratio: 80-20

So there goes all that stuff above the lake it appears to me. What is she picking up? The area in Lakeview and City park? So it appears she might lose the rest. I am not sure if that is good or bad for GOP hopes there.

I have to admit that this proposed District makes a lot more sense than the current one.