A proposed new map for the Mississippi Senate includes more majority-black districts and fewer split precincts statewide.
…The map includes 15 majority-black Senate districts. When districts were drawn by federal judges a decade ago, there were 12 majority-black districts. With some population changes, there were 13 majority-black districts by the time this round of redistricting started.
Mississippi has a 37 percent black population and a 35 percent black voting-age population. Under the proposed map, 29 percent of the Senate districts would be majority-black.
…The economically struggling Delta lost population between 2000 and 2010, and that’s reflected in the new map that expands the geography of most Senate districts to take in more people.
Sen. Derrick Simmons, a black Democrat from Greenville, said he believes the Delta gets a fair shake.
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