Looking at Florida's new congressional map ahead of the midterm election

It took the Florida legislature one second to do what decades of court orders, lawsuits and amendments tried to stop: drawing voting maps with the intent to favor one political party. At the center of the controversy is District 5, which stretches from Jacksonville along the panhandle. It is a space where Black communities elected Black leaders to represent them. But under the new map, District 5 is now broken up into four districts and drawn in such a way that the Black vote is now the clear minority. This map was drawn by Governor DeSantis and approved by the Republican legislature, and the impacts go far beyond the panhandle. The Governor’s plan wipes away half the state’s Black-majority congressional districts.