Republicans are Stacking the Deck: The Politics of Pointlessness

This is a map of the United States.  As you can see, the Bible Belt and Deep South Regions of the country have populations of African Americans (represented by purple spots) greater than the national average:

This is another map of the U.S. that highlights our country’s most impoverished regions.  Again, the Bible Belt and Deep South appear to be the clear winners:

For my third map, I present the most gerrymandered districts in America.  (That is, districts whose boundaries have been redrawn over and over again, usually to ensure political incumbency.  The very liberal city of Austin, for example, belongs to seven separate districts in Texas and is represented by conservatives year after year.)  Noticing a trend here?

This is a map showing States with Democrat (blue) governors and Republican (red) governors. It has yet to be updated to include Kentucky's newly elected Republican governor:

The fifth and final map (although there are more that could help prove my point) is actually a two-pronged map, if you will.  One shows the state by state breakup of the 2012 election, and the other shows a district by district breakup of the 2012 election:

                                                                                        

So, what did you see?  Did you see the nation’s poorest minorities living in districts gerrymandered to suppress Democratic votes and shoe-in candidates who act against the best interests of their constituents?  So did I.  Otherwise, it wouldn’t make any sense that in election cycle after election cycle, the poorest Americans continue to vote for the party that tells them they’re lazy; the non-white Americans vote for the all-white party that makes them feel unwelcome; and the liberal bastions in the contested Deep South consistently elect shady, cowardly, no-good Republicans.