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As the 2024 election approaches, here's what to know about ballot tracking, vote-by-mail deadlines, and finding your polling site in Alabama.
46 of Alabama's 80 majority-African American municipalities (57.5%) are located within the Black Belt. As of the 2000 census, [6] Alabama's 18-county Black Belt region had a population of 589,041 (13.25% of the state's total population).
The new map, set to take effect for the 2024 U.S. House elections, significantly alters the 7th and 2nd districts to have slim Black majority or plurality voting-age populations and span across the eastern portion of Alabama's Black Belt, with the 2nd district set to include portions of the cities of Phenix City, Montgomery and Mobile.
The Reference Book on Regional Well-Being: U.S. Regions, the Black Belt, Appalachia. (Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University, 1996) online. Highly detailed Statistics from 1990 census. Winemiller, Terance L. "Black Belt Region in Alabama" Encyclopedia of Alabama (2009) online; Yafa, Stephen.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, argued that the new map kept communities of interest intact, unifying the state’s so-called Black Belt, named for its fertile black soil.
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The U.S. state of New York contains 26 congressional districts. Each district elects one member of the United States House of Representatives to represent it. [1]The state was redistricted in 2022, following the 2020 U.S. census.
Subjective application of the laws effectively closed most blacks out of politics. Selma is a major town and the seat of Dallas County, part of the Alabama Black Belt with a majority-black population. In 1961, the population of Dallas County was 57% black, but of the 15,000 blacks old enough to vote, only 130 were registered (fewer than 1%).