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The Supreme Court is threatening to strike down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the provision that guarantees Black Americans an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. The loss of Section 2 would mark the gravest collapse of Black representation in Congress since the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow. Before the Voting Rights Act, most of the South went nearly a century without electing a single Black representative.

Political scientists really have not come up with a good answer to this. Rural areas in deep blue states are just effectively colonies even if not technically. They can compete for power in free and fair elections, but never win one. The same goes for blue enclaves in red states.

Minorities in a democracy with local representation can never be represented proportionately, unless there's extreme segregation, which isn't a thing anybody really claims to want. The argument that blacks deserve a "candidate of their choice" long past the era of identifiable racial discrimination doesn't hold since you can slice up the population by any variable and realize it's impossible for that minority to have its own little district of self-determination. Men, young people, plumbers, baptists, none of these groups get the candidate of their choice because they're not units of democratic representation. It's extremely disheartening that we've decided to keep this up and enshrine in law the LKY view of multicultural democracy as a racial head count.