As the decennial redistricting session looms in Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday that he supports redrawing the state’s congressional maps to include two majority minority districts to better represent the state’s Black population.
The comments are the most detailed insight Edwards has provided into his approach to redistricting to date and are aligned with progressive political action groups that have long sought a second majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana.
“We have a minority population, an African American population, of 32-33%,” Edwards said at his year-end press conference Thursday. “We have six congressional districts. And so fairness — if it can be done — would be to have two out of the six congressional districts be minority districts.”
The move would almost certainly result in the…
