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‘They want the country to be what it was in 1776’: anger in Memphis after Republicans redraw voting maps

Tennessee Republicans eliminated the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district after the supreme court gutted part of the Voting Rights Act From the bridge on Poplar Avenue, above the railroad tracks that cut through…

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Tennessee Republicans eliminated the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district after the supreme court gutted part of the Voting Rights Act From the bridge on Poplar Avenue, above the railroad tracks that cut through the Memphis neighborhood of Binghampton, you can’t see the rupture at the heart of the city.

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