r/worldnewsvideo • u/PlenitudeOpulence Plenty 🩺🧬💜 • Apr 19 '23

News Report 🌏 The illusion of democracy in Tennessee

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u/Positive-Pack-396 Apr 19 '23

Man Tennessee is not a free state at all

how can the people of Tennessee just Sit there and allow this to happen

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u/bodega_bladerunner Apr 19 '23

Because this is what they wanted all along

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u/reality_lovely Apr 19 '23

The state is gerrymandered to a ridiculous level. The actual representation should have a 60-40 Republican lean, but they have it fixed at an 80-20 Republican advantage.

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u/carnationsole3 Apr 20 '23

Thank you for giving the real answer here. There’s been an intentional, systematic, and methodical gerrymandering of many southern states. This is always most visible in poor and black communities. Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville have democratic communities but when the rest of the state is gerrymandered to hell and back it doesn’t matter how the largest populated areas are voting