Memphis loses its guaranteed congressional carve-out as fair lines replace the skin-game. Democrats just watched their racial cheat code get deleted in real time and the meltdown is nuclear.
Man the same crowd that cheered race-based maps for years is now burning down the statehouse over color-blind lines.
🚨#BREAKING: Watch as Tennessee House Republicans Pass Controversial Racist’ Redistricting Map Sparking huge outrage on Angry Protests as they say 99% white Tennessee House Republicans passed it and they are stripping majority Black Memphis of congressional representation pic.twitter.com/X1Fzm7wcWj
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) May 7, 2026
Factcheck: Tennessee’s Republican-led House and Senate just passed a new congressional map (May 7) that splits majority-Black Shelby County/Memphis into three districts. This dismantles the 9th District—the state’s lone Democratic/majority-Black seat held by Rep. Steve Cohen—likely flipping it Republican. Protests erupted at the Capitol over the dilution of Black voting power. It follows a recent SCOTUS ruling easing Voting Rights Act limits and repeal of a mid-decade redistrict ban. The “99% white” description is close; the legislature is ~76% Republican and overwhelmingly white. Partisan redistricting, not unique to one side.