By Bianca Flowers, David Hood-Nuño and Ally Levine
Oct 19 (Reuters) – The city of Memphis used to sit almost entirely in one congressional district. The new map splits residents from neighbors across the street, each now belonging to districts with voters halfway across the state who have different needs and interests.
Four years before the Memphis redistricting, Republicans used a similar strategy in drawing new maps for Nashville.
Reuters sought to quantify the impact of redistricting on the voters of Tennessee, examining public funding, demographics and socioeconomic factors to show why it’s important to residents when a city is split up like this.
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(editing by Kat Stafford, Julia Wolfe and Claudia Parsons)
