Of course the New York Times doesn’t admit it’s admitting it, but it headlines the endgame.

‘The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans – NYT’

What case is that?

“Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.”

Let’s work backward here. The Voting Rights Act was abused to gerrymandering minority districts on the basis of race which is the opposite of what dismantling segregation was supposed to do. But it was never about dismantling segregation, but perversely establishing it for the benefit of the Dems, the same part that set up segregation in the first place.

After using segregation to rig the system for their party, the Dems used supposed desegregation to rig it.

The Dems then had to justify abusing the VRA and other Civil Rights legislation to establish federal oversight and force states to maintain gerrymandered minority districts, not because they love black people, but because those districts were rigged to elect Democrats.

Now they’re saying the quiet part out loud.

“If the Supreme Court strikes down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais, a case the court heard Wednesday. Without Section 2, which has been interpreted to require the creation of majority-minority districts, Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South.”

“Section 2 is the main legal limitation on gerrymandering in many red states, particularly in the South. It bans voting practices that discriminate based on race, which has been interpreted to require the creation of majority-minority districts in areas with racially polarized voting and where minority groups represent a majority of the population. Without Section 2, many state legislatures would be free to eliminate majority-minority congressional districts, which mostly vote Democratic.”

The most revealing thing in the article? It never mentions the word ‘racism’.

There isn’t even the pretense that any of this is about racism. None of the nonsensical pieties about the civil rights movement and the ‘legacy’ of segregation. Just brute force electoral analysis which is what this was always about. It was never about race. It was about exploiting race to gerrymander red states to maintain Dem districts inside them.

Now that risks going away.