Moving a few precincts and calling it fixed isn't going to fix the problem. FL-5 is under 50% Black VAP, so it's not VRA protected, which means the shape violates the redistricting amendment. It covers far too many counties and has no purpose other than political gerrymandering, and that is not allowed.
Not that the GOP doesn't love the current districts. They do, very much.
But the GOP didn't create these monstrosity districts alone. They created them for the 1992 election, in conjunction with black Democrats, in a state where NO blacks were elected to Congress.
Back then, there was a Voting Rights Act mandate that Southern legislatures draw districts with a minimum of 65% black voters to ensure election of more black legislators at both the state and Federal levels. It's how we got Corinne Brown's district that follows the banks of rivers to take in predominantly black communities inland, south of Jacksonville. It's how Alcee Hastings got elected in a district that stretched from Ft. Lauderdale to Ft. Pierce, connected by huge swaths of lightly populated farmland. Without these gerrymanders, North Florida would likely not elect a black Democrat, and redrawing the lines may well elect a Republican, as North Florida white voters in areas that Corinne Brown would have to run in are no longer nominal Democrats and rather inelastic in their voting habits now. I suspect that when this all shakes out, the cure for Democrats will be worse than the disease.
