Hey, everybody, it's Monday, May 11th, 2026. I'm Alison Gill, and this is Bean's Talk.

All right, hey, hey, hey, since last we spoke, we have gone back to Jim Crow times.

We are now in Jim Crow 2.0, what with the Gutting of the Voting Rights Act,

but then we had the Virginia Supreme Court shoot down the voters, the Commonwealth voting,

on changing the Constitution to allow for redistricting before the census,

and that map got shot down.

And some other things with other stuff going on in Alabama and Tennessee.

So Tennessee voted to carve up Memphis, which is 63% black, into three districts in an effort

to stomp out their sole Democratic district in the state in order to disenfranchise black voters.

And for those who might argue this

isn't about race, this isn't about the black voters in Memphis, like the state house speaker

who claimed that he didn't know that Memphis is majority black, ask people who question the racism

of it, why white democratic strongholds in the state were left

alone, right? But I want to point something out because I believe that this move diluting the

black vote because you're racist in Memphis by carving it up could actually backfire on Republicans.

And I'm not saying that this information that I'm about to give you should make you not want

to fight this tooth and nail. It should be fought. It's absolutely horrific. And like I said,

it's Jim Crow 2.0. But see, the Republicans drew this new map, I think, based on election results in 2020 and 2024.

But those are presidential election years, not midterm elections.

And as we know, midterm elections, especially the first one after a new president, a new party, takes office in the White House, are a lot different than election years or off your midterms.

Now, the only real comparison we have to this year's elections are the 2018 midterm elections, right? It's two years after

Trump was elected. And I don't think Republicans took that into consideration when they drew

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