‘Jim Crow 2.0’: South Carolina’s Republicans move to oust state’s only Black congressman since 1897

James Clyburn could now find his district dismantled after supreme court effectively gutted Voting Rights Act South Carolina has had exactly one Black representative in Congress since 1897: James Clyburn. A proposal to redraw the state’s political map would dismantle the district he represents. The state’s sixth congressional district starts on its southern border with Georgia, in the suburbs of Savannah, moving a hundred miles north to wind around the heart of Charleston, before cutting thro...

By George Chidi in Columbia