Rate AL-07 after SCOTUS rules on the state’s map on the merits

[Vosem]

Safe D, Republican incumbents don't wanna take on too many Democratic voters, even in Alabama. Even if SCOTUS completely axes the VRA's racial set-asides, this seat survives either until some kind of weird realignment.

(Just given the states' geographies and political climates, conditional on the survival of racially-polarized voting, SC/AL/MS/LA/TN will all continue having exactly one overwhelmingly-black seat, unless the federal courts rule that to be an impermissible racial gerrymander, or alternatively a set of national gerrymandering standards passes Congress which forecloses this, like the Olson algorithm. Even then I think there would just be an unprincipled set-aside for majority-black parts of the South, though.)