Louisiana v. Callais · ¶80

First, vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South, where many § 2 suits arise. As this Court has recognized, “things have changed dramatically” in the decades since the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U. S. 529, 547 (2013). At the time of the Act's passage, the Nation had faced nearly a century of “entrenched racial discrimination in voting, `an insidious and pervasive evil which had been perpetuated in certain parts of our country through unremitting and ingenious defance of the Constitution.' ” Id., at 535 (quoting Katzenbach, 383 U. S., at 309). But the Voting Rights Act led to “great strides” in the ensuing decades: “voting tests were abolished, disparities in voter registration and turnout due to race were erased, and African-Americans attained political office in record numbers.” 570 U. S., at 549, 553. By…

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