Louisiana v. Callais · ¶159

And my hypothetical is not so different from the Louisiana districting scheme that was challenged in the dilution suit underlying this case. It is just that instead of arguing about the need for one majority-minority district, the plaintiffs in that suit were asserting the need for a second. As the majority relates, Louisiana drew its post-2020 census map with one mainly Black district and five mainly White ones. See ante, at 101–102. (For context, Louisiana's population is about one-third African American.) The dilution plaintiffs alleged that there was another natural (i. e., politically cohesive and geographically contiguous) Black-majority district which the Louisiana Legislature had effectively cracked. See ante, at 105 (showing the plaintiffs' proposed district). The residents of that possible district wound up dispersed among the State's other districts, where (given racially…

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