Even after Supreme Court decision, eliminating Rep. Bennie Thompson’s district could be difficult
Bobby Harrison argues that any 2026 attempt to redraw Mississippi’s congressional map and eliminate Bennie Thompson’s majority-Black district would face completed March primary results, election-chaos concerns, likely litigation, and the state’s 38% Black population. The piece strengthens the site’s guardrail: congressional redistricting is real pressure after Callais, but it is not settled May 20 special-session scope.
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Bobby Harrison argues that any 2026 attempt to redraw Mississippi’s congressional map and eliminate Bennie Thompson’s majority-Black district would face completed March primary results, election-chaos concerns, likely litigation, and the state’s 38% Black population. The piece strengthens the site’s guardrail: congressional redistricting is real pressure after Callais, but it is not settled May 20 special-session scope. This page keeps the item on-site so readers, feed subscribers, and search engines can land on a clean Mississippi-race URL first, then jump out to the cited reporting instead of skipping straight past the desk.
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