ALABAMA GERRYMANDERING
The percentage of Alabama's population that is African-American
What is 27%
This was the only majority-Black congressional district in Alabama pre-2023
What is the 7th Congressional District?
These two groups make up the majority of North Macedonia’s population.
What are Albanians and ethnic Macedonians?
The basis of my presentation, and the thing that caused so much strife for both Alabama and North Macedonia.
What is Ethnic Gerrymandering?
This Alabama governor signed the controversial 2021 redistricting maps into law.
Who is Kay Ivey?
The year that Alabama’s legislature approved new congressional and state legislative maps that sparked controversy.
What is 2021?
This section of the Voting Rights Act was the basis for legal challenges against Alabama’s redistricting
Section 2
The percentage of North Macedonians that are ethnically Albanian.
What is 25 percent?
These groups are who were oppressed in both Alabama and North Macedonia.(Not the majorities)
The Supreme Court ruling in Allen v. Milligan passed by this margin.
What is 5-4?
Critics said Alabama’s 2021 maps violated this landmark federal law protecting minority voters.
What is the Voting Rights Act (VRA)
Despite lower court rulings, the Supreme Court allowed Alabama’s disputed map to be used in this year’s election.
What is 2022?
In this year, the National Liberation Army (NLA) took up arms demanding greater rights and representation.
What is 2001?
These 2 groups are oppressed in Alabama and North Macedonia
What/who are African americans
What/who are Albanians
This professor gave me my interview.
Who is Dr. Stewart
This 2023 Supreme Court case ruled Alabama’s maps violated the VRA.
What is Allen v. Milligan?
The Supreme Court ordered Alabama to create this many majority-Black districts.
What is 2?
This peace accord ended the 2001 conflict and aimed to increase Albanian participation in government.
What is the Ohrid Framework Agreement?
North Macedonia is part of what group of countries?
Where/what are The Balkans
This armed group fought for Albanian rights during the 2001 North Macedonian conflict.
What is the National Liberation Army (NLA)?
After Alabama failed to comply with the Court’s order, this figure was appointed to redraw the maps.
What is a federal court–appointed special master?
Packing Black voters into one district and spreading others thinly across many is an example of this gerrymandering tactic.
What is Vote Dilution?
After the Ohrid Agreement, critics said the government manipulated district lines in these two cities to control Albanian votes.
What are Struga and Kičevo?
In this country the minority opresses the majority
South Africa
Dr. Stewart says this sort of behavior is “a paradoxical inclusion: allowing minority presence while capping its potential for real change”