"Who counts as Black in voting maps? Some GOP state officials want that narrowed."

[Sol]

This seems very bad.

[Oryxslayer]

As someone who does work in the civil rights field, I will say that this usually matters very little, especially in the deep south. The difference between 'Any-Part of a Group' and 'Said Group Alone' in the regions often under civil rights litigation is at max 1%. It historically matters more in the solidly Dem urban states with more groups. it also may matter much more in the distant future with if the growth of mixed-race respondents seen in the 2020 census continues, but people here were often ticking just Mixed and not detailing the breakdown of said mixture.

I will also note that we don't always use Any-Part of a group. If racial coalitions are important to the desired outcome, then all mixed race respondents are looked at as a separate single group. If the case only concerns a single group, then Any Part is better.

So this is a bad development if accepted, but not life altering compared to say ISL.

[ملكة كرينجيتوك]

TL;DR

The way Gaudin sees it, though, this current legal fight over who counts as Black in redistricting "has nothing to do with people's identity."

"It has to do with power and how different populations — whether it's their inclusion or their exclusion or their carefully curated inclusion — how all of that works to promote the political power of a person or a party," Gaudin says.