it'd only work in areas where mostly black people are in a majority, which is actually pretty small in the US. The only way this could work that sounds feasible is heavily encourage (if not force, ugh) black americans to move there, which has so so soooo many problems.
Maybe it's a special region where districts are drawn both for white and black voters and they kind of vote in seperate but overlapping constituancies, like how New Zealand has the thing where Mauri vote for their own representatives with their own districts?
Idk, that might not even be a good idea. It's safe to say that not much on this map was well thought out, but if it could work I'd really like an african american autonomous region.
I've never heard of that Maori system, I'd have to learn more but that sounds interesting. Also sounds like segregation but if they make it work I'd like to know how, I'll check it out later. Thx
It sure uh... sounds segregationy, so I definately get how it comes off as a bit suspicious, but honestly it sounds like a good way to give different, traditionally at-odds ethnic groups equal representation without cramming them into the same districts and making them compete with each other. So instead of constituancies being split between racist southern whites and PoC trying to turf each other out, there's an understanding that all the white people will get to vote for their candidates, and the black people will vote for theirs, and both groups will get to send delegations without having to directly compete. And maybe that's all that makes the Black Belt ASSR special is that it has that system.
Again idk. I feel like I'm walking on a knife's edge of accidentially saying some yikes shit so I'm gonna leave it at that unless someone has a more informed point of view to express
it'd only work in areas where mostly black people are in a majority, which is actually pretty small in the US. The only way this could work that sounds feasible is heavily encourage (if not force, ugh) black americans to move there, which has so so soooo many problems.
Maybe it's a special region where districts are drawn both for white and black voters and they kind of vote in seperate but overlapping constituancies, like how New Zealand has the thing where Mauri vote for their own representatives with their own districts?
Idk, that might not even be a good idea. It's safe to say that not much on this map was well thought out, but if it could work I'd really like an african american autonomous region.
I've never heard of that Maori system, I'd have to learn more but that sounds interesting. Also sounds like segregation but if they make it work I'd like to know how, I'll check it out later. Thx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_electorates
It sure uh... sounds segregationy, so I definately get how it comes off as a bit suspicious, but honestly it sounds like a good way to give different, traditionally at-odds ethnic groups equal representation without cramming them into the same districts and making them compete with each other. So instead of constituancies being split between racist southern whites and PoC trying to turf each other out, there's an understanding that all the white people will get to vote for their candidates, and the black people will vote for theirs, and both groups will get to send delegations without having to directly compete. And maybe that's all that makes the Black Belt ASSR special is that it has that system.
Again idk. I feel like I'm walking on a knife's edge of accidentially saying some yikes shit so I'm gonna leave it at that unless someone has a more informed point of view to express