"Honestly, it looks to me like the old district lines are even more manipulated to put all the blacks into a single district than the new lines!

Seems that was the objective, so that minorities would have some voice in government. So the SCOTUS ruled there was no racism to remedy, so the racial gerrymander became illegal. With districts designed to leave only a trivially small minority in each district, then the GOP and the Dems can both run white supremacists, in every district. In fact, with the GOP running a white supremacist, the Dems will be forced to run a white supremacist to be competitive, because the anti-white supremacist vote would be too small to win.

We old phartz remember when southern Dems were more racist than the GOP. I remember Mike Huckabee, some years ago, talking about being a young Republican in Arkansas, when a meeting of all the Republicans in the county, could be held in the living room of a member's house. The Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act both passed with much stronger GOP support in Congress, than Dem support. Nixon started the GOP embrace of racism. Then racism and religions fanaticism became the GOP rule under Saint Reagan. Remember the "Boll Weevil Caucus"? Those were southern Dems, who allied themselves with Reagan, attracted by the racism and religious fanaticism.

Steve