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The Republicans were very successful at gerrymandering in states where they started with a majority and they used racial data to do it. It's called Project REDMAP.

For example, Georgia: In 2016, the overall state percentage of voters was 45.35% for Clinton and 50.44% for Trump, which seems like a moderately close race. But only 5 out of 14 representatives (36%) are Democrats. If you look at the breakdown of the presidential race by congressional district you can see that the voting strongly correlates to race but most of the non-white people in Georgia are packed into only four congressional districts.

The Republicans were very successful at gerrymandering in states where they started with a majority and they used racial data to do it. It's called Project REDMAP.

For example, Georgia: In 2016, the overall state percentage of voters was 45.35% for Clinton and 50.44% for Trump, which seems like a moderately close race. But only 5 out of 14 representatives are Democrats. If you look at the breakdown of the presidential race by congressional district you can see that the voting strongly correlates to race but most of the non-white people in Georgia are packed into only four congressional districts.

The Republicans were very successful at gerrymandering in states where they started with a majority and they used racial data to do it. It's called Project REDMAP.

For example, Georgia: In 2016, the overall state percentage of voters was 45.35% for Clinton and 50.44% for Trump, which seems like a moderately close race. But only 5 out of 14 representatives (36%) are Democrats. If you look at the breakdown of the presidential race by congressional district you can see that the voting strongly correlates to race but most of the non-white people in Georgia are packed into only four congressional districts.

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The Republicans were very successful at gerrymandering in states where they started with a majority and they used racial data to do it. It's called Project REDMAP.

For example, Georgia: In 2016, the overall state percentage of voters was 45.35% for Clinton and 50.44% for Trump, which seems like a moderately close race. But only 5 out of 14 representatives are Democrats. If you look at the breakdown of the presidential race by congressional district you can see that the voting strongly correlates to race but most of the non-white people in Georgia are packed into only four congressional districts.