Monday, February 28, 2011

Hinds redistricting maps are up. Read 'em and weep.

Proposed Hinds County redistricting maps are up on the county website and posted below. The target population for each district is 49,057. Census data show Hinds County Supervisor districts have the following population:

District 1: 48,853
District 2: 45,312
District 3: 48,823
District 4: 53,396
District 5: 47,901

The first proposal is not posted. A county official told this correspondent there were problems with the numbers in the first one so it may or may not be submitted to the Board. This correspondent also observed Derrick Johnson and Robert Graham entering county offices together and they were quite chummy with each other. One black constable standing next to me called the fourth proposal "horrible". It was not Jerry Moore. The public meeting for the proposals is 6:00 PM tonight at the Board of Supervisors' chambers.

Earlier posts on subject:
Clarion-Ledger drops the ball again
WLBT Editorial
Hearing set for Monday night
Redistricting fireworks at Hinds BOS last night. Video of entire meeting.
WLBT coverage of redistricting meeting
Hinds redistricting meeting tonight
More redistricting follies by Hinds Supes?
Northside Sun covers hiring of Derrick Johnson
Hinds Supes sneak paying President of Mississippi NAACP into meeting

Posted by Kingfish at 12:05 PM

10 comments:

Paul Mitchell said...

Um...

Gerrymandering is a form of boundary delimitation (redistricting) in which electoral districts or constituency boundaries are deliberately modified for electoral purposes, thereby producing a contorted or unusual shape.

February 28, 2011 at 12:42 PM
Anonymous said...

Prop#3 is my favorite because it gives Eastover to Doug Anderson. That seems like a fair trade off considering that the folks in Eastover keep pushing the unbridled tax-and-spender Cecil "Mo' Money" Brown over the finish line.

February 28, 2011 at 1:04 PM
Kingfish said...

Its also probably unconstitutional because it makes every district majority black.

February 28, 2011 at 1:12 PM
Anonymous said...

wish that were true, fish, but there is nothing 'unconstitutional' about that. Its not 'right' but the only constitutional rights determined by the DOJ are protection of minority rights. And even though the black population is the majority, they are still treated as the minority.

Frankly, there is no reason to change district 1 or 5. The Supe plans, though, are designed to make D1 a much more 'black' district to protect Supervisor Graham.

February 28, 2011 at 1:25 PM
Anonymous said...

This will sure help the population of Rankin/Madison County as Im sure more more will leave as a result of this. I would hate my small minority vote if I lived in or near 39211.

February 28, 2011 at 1:32 PM
Anonymous said...

Considering that HindsCo is only 28% white not sure that would trump other criteria like trying to keep the communities of interest whole.

Prop #4 is the only plan to produce a majority white district (only one) and it puts Dist #4 at only 51.07% white.

With the gale-force direction of the HindsCo+Jacktown demographic winds in another decade you likely won't be able to draw a majority white Sup district even if you tried damn hard.

The real problem is the need to draw these convoluted districts to compensate for the Sups place of residence. The folks who get disenfranchised are the people living outside the Jackson-Clinton-Raymond-Bryam-Terry arc.

February 28, 2011 at 1:35 PM
Anonymous said...

That cost $40,000? Does anyone need any more proof why it is standing room only for UHaul trucks?

February 28, 2011 at 1:45 PM
Anonymous said...

Any insights or guesses KF as to what the problems were with the first proposal?

February 28, 2011 at 1:47 PM
Anonymous said...

Found it interesting from the file Kingfish linked to yesterday that both Belhaven and Fondren remain lily white. In fact both neighborhoods each had one precinct that got whiter. No doubt the Bugler co-habs, free peeps (interns) and Tom Head will be up in arms about that in 3 ... 2 ... 1.

February 28, 2011 at 2:02 PM
Ironghost said...

KF: WLBT just had their spot on it. Is your proposal #1 the same as the one that got adopted? I couldn't tell.

February 28, 2011 at 10:05 PM

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