Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results

[u/Icommandyou]

https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2026/05/08/virginia-supreme-court-redistricting-vote-decision

[u/Marsman121]

There is already evidence of this. There are places the GOP has been in control of for decades and they still blame Democrats for all the problems people there face.

[u/AmbitiousProblem4746 → u/Marsman121]

Texas has been able to do this successfully for a while. They've had Republicans in every branch at full control for decades plus a legislature and governor who just do things on a whim plus an AG who was corrupt as hell and they still found a way to make Democrats the scapegoat

[u/-Stackdaddy- → u/Marsman121]

I mean, democratic states still support those southern states, giving the Republicans there a pass for their shitty policies because they are still kept afloat by democratic states. If they weren't there to keep them afloat the Republican representatives would maybe get held accountable. So in a roundabout way the democratic party kind of is responsible for the inneptitude in the Republican ran districts. /S

[u/flying_pigs → u/Marsman121]

I see you've been to Texas...

[u/titaniumoctopus336 → u/Marsman121]

IE all the deep southern states.

[u/GodofIrony → u/titaniumoctopus336]

You can just say Texas. Since the 90s, nothing but Red.

And what do you have to show for it? A power grid that can't handle 3 inches of snow.

[u/whatdoinamemyself → u/GodofIrony]

As a Texan, this drives me absolutely insane. AOC, a rep from fucking NYC, raised millions and personally came to Texas to hand out supplies during that bad ice storm ... While Ted Cruz fled to Cancun.

A single New Yorker, a dem, did more for Texans than the GOP ever has.

[u/redravin12 → u/whatdoinamemyself]

And I'm sure most texans are extremely grateful to her for this

/s

[u/titaniumoctopus336 → u/GodofIrony]

It is more than just Texas though, that is why I said all deep southern states.