Ben Shapiro
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The white candidate, Abigail Spanberger, won 90% of the black vote.
The black candidate, Winsome Sears, won 90% of the white vote.
So it turns out the American people are not nearly as racist as Chuck Schumer wishes they were.
So he tweeted out, this decision upends half a century of precedent, defies the spirit of the American civil rights movement, and reverses generations of progress toward racial justice.
And it shows that Democrats hold 24 seats in a variety of Southern states.
And after redistricting, Republicans will gain 12 more seats.
And then he added, by some estimates, this decision could lead conservative state legislatures to draw as many as 19 additional seats that favor Republicans in the House.
OK, that is telling on himself.
The reason he's upset is not because he believes that black people are discriminated against.
It's because black people are disproportionately Democratic voters and he believes that Democratic seats are going to disappear.
That's called normal gerrymandering.
Now, again, gerrymandering has been a part of our process since the very beginning.
There is truly no great substitute for gerrymandering, political gerrymandering, where the state legislature or state commission or another body draws the districts within a state.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
This is why I wasn't complaining when California decided to redistrict.
Texas just did it.
Florida is going to redo it or just did.
And this is the way that states work.
And there's nothing illegal about it.
It may be a bad thing, but there is no alternative to it.