How are Black voters responding to the Supreme Court's Callais ruling, according to Terrence Woodbury?

Terrence Woodbury of Hit Strategies calls it a blacklash. After the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's second majority-Black district in the Callais decision, his polling found Black turnout rising in Southern primaries and in early voting in Georgia and North Carolina. Black voters also became more likely to post about politics, boycott, petition and attend rallies.

• About 80% of Black seniors said they would fight for American democracy, against less than 50% of Black Gen Z.
• Black Gen Z voters were more motivated by voting rights, racial justice and freedom than by democracy as an abstraction.
• Dave Wasserman warns the ruling removes the last guardrail for Black-majority seats, after Tennessee dismantled the Memphis district.

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