Redistricting & Voting Rules
This process redraws political boundary lines, usually after the Census, and can change which voters are grouped together.
What is redistricting?
These are the names of two chambers that make up the South Carolina legislature
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives (South Carolina General Assembly)?
TWO statewide executive offices that will appear on every SC voter's June 9 primary ballot.
What are (any two of) Governor, Attorney General, Superintendent of Education, State Treasurer, Comptroller General, Secretary of State, or Commissioner of Agriculture?
This 1964 voter registration campaign in Mississippi led to the creation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
What is Freedom Summer?
This Black congressman from Charleston served 24 years in the U.S. House, becoming the longest-serving African American in South Carolina congressional history, and was a key figure in passing the 1994 Violence Against Women Act.
Who is Jim Clyburn?
On this date, the SC Senate rejected the Republican mid-decade congressional map, allowing June 9 primaries to proceed under existing maps.
What is May 26, 2026?
This is the number of senators who serve in the SC State Senate and their term length
What are 46 senators and 4-year terms?
ONE Republican and ONE Democratic candidate are running in the U.S. Senate primary and go by the names of:
Who are Lindsey Graham (Republican) and (any one of) Annie Andrews, Brandon Brown, or Kyle Freeman (Democratic)?
This woman became the first Black American to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, appointed in 2001.
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
This Reconstruction-era politician from Beaufort was one of the first African Americans to serve in the U.S. House, representing South Carolina's 2nd district from 1870 to 1874.
Who is Robert Smalls?
This is the tactic of drawing maps that concentrate or dilute a group's votes to benefit a party
What is gerrymandering?
This is the number of state House representatives and how long each term is
What are 124 representatives and 2-year terms?
This is SC's chief law enforcement officer; they decide which cases to pursue. The outgoing official is Alan Wilson.
Who is the Attorney General?
This Reconstruction-era leader was the first African American to serve a full term as a U.S. Senator, representing Mississippi from 1875 to 1881.
Who was Blanche K. Bruce?
This native of Denmark, South Carolina, founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and later served as a U.S. Congressman from Georgia.
Who is John Lewis?
This South Carolina congressional district is the state's only majority-Black district and was the main target of the proposed mid-decade map.
What is the 6th Congressional District (Rep. Jim Clyburn’s district)?
This is the power the State Governor
What is signing or vetoing laws and appointing agency heads?
This official can expand or block Medicaid, pardon prisoners, and is one of the most contested races in the primary and general elections in South Carolina
Who is the Governor?
This woman became the first major-party Black candidate for President of the United States when she ran in 1972.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This 1947 federal court case, argued by Thurgood Marshall, struck down South Carolina's all-white Democratic primary, paving the way for Black voters to participate in the state's decisive primary elections.
What was Elmore v. Rice?
These TWO legal or political consequences occur if a state legislature attempts a mid-decade redistricting that breaks up a majority-minority district.
What is: racial discrimination, injunctions delaying elections, increased civil-rights litigation, or mobilization of affected communities? (Accept any two.)
This term explains how the Senate and House districts are related. Each Senate district contains roughly 2–3 smaller House districts
What is the “nesting dolls” analogy?
She says one of her top priorities as Superintendent of Education is making high-quality pre-K available to every four-year-old in South Carolina.
Who is Sylvia Wright?
This former sharecropper's son founded the National Rainbow Coalition and ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
This landmark school desegregation case originated in Clarendon County, South Carolina, and became one of the five cases consolidated into the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
What was Briggs v. Elliot?