Numbers Aren't Enough

 Headline on *Salon* 1/25/2022:

Court strikes down Alabama GOP's racist redistricting maps

"The map that the judges deemed discriminatory contained just one majority-Black district in a state where Black people make up roughly 27% of the population."

This immediately struck me as an unintended consequence of an integrated society.  In a perfectly integrated state, the Black population of any sub-district or sub-area of that state should be 27% of that sub-district's total population.  In other words, under conditions of perfect integration, Black people can never have a deciding vote on a measure that affects them.

This also means that any issue that is framed in such a way that the interests of Black people and White people are diametrically opposed and only one exclusive outcome or interest is allowed, this means that Black people will lose.

 I feel that people would feel uneasy at such an inevitable outcome.

But people would be uneasy with the opposite extreme.