{"id":8891,"date":"2026-08-09T17:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=8891"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:04:38","slug":"one-chart-shows-the-backlash-to-gutting-the-voting-rights-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=8891","title":{"rendered":"One chart shows the backlash to gutting the Voting Rights Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic turnout for House primaries in a majority-Black Tennessee county surged to the highest level in a decade, the latest sign that redistricting may be energizing Black voters across the South.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=8890\">Democratic voters who used to back Susan Collins aren\u2019t so sure anymore<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fifth of active registered voters cast a ballot in one of the three Democratic U.S. House primaries held on Thursday in Shelby County, which includes Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee state legislature eliminated a majority-Black, predominantly Democratic House district earlier this year, following the Supreme Court decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act provisions that ensured racial minorities would be able to elect their candidate of choice. Now residents of Memphis, once the heart of that district, are spread across three solidly Republican districts.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=8884\">Longtime San Francisco nonprofit will close as city gets tougher on crime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the Supreme Court ruling, Black leaders in Memphis have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2026\/07\/08\/majority-black-memphis-anger-over-redistricting-has-turned-into-resolve\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2026\/07\/08\/majority-black-memphis-anger-over-redistricting-has-turned-into-resolve\/\">intensified efforts<\/a> to register voters and encourage them to cast a ballot<i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Catch up quickly every weekday morning with a rundown of the 7 most important and interesting stories. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/newsletters\/the-7\/?method=SURL&amp;location=ART&amp;initiative=LIVE\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/newsletters\/the-7\/?method=SURL&amp;location=ART&amp;initiative=LIVE\"><i>Sign up for The 7 newsletter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=8881\">Voter turnout surges in Tennessee after Black-majority district is erased<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic turnout for House primaries in Shelby County, Tennessee, a majority-Black county, surged to the highest level in a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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