{"id":73228,"date":"2026-05-08T07:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/tennessee-republicans-pass-map-erasing-majority-black-district\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:57:43","slug":"tennessee-republicans-pass-map-erasing-majority-black-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/tennessee-republicans-pass-map-erasing-majority-black-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Republicans Pass Map Erasing Majority-Black District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee lawmakers passed a new congressional map on Thursday dividing up the state\u2019s lone majority-Black district. The redrawn district lines put Republicans in position to gain a seat in this fall\u2019s midterm elections and secure full control over Tennessee\u2019s congressional delegation. Tennessee becomes the ninth state to enact a new congressional map ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee lawmakers passed a new congressional map on Thursday dividing up the state\u2019s lone majority-Black district. The redrawn district lines put Republicans in position to gain a seat in this fall\u2019s midterm elections and secure full control over Tennessee\u2019s congressional delegation. Tennessee becomes the ninth state to enact a new congressional map ahead of the &#8230; <a title=\"Tennessee Republicans Pass Map Erasing Majority-Black District\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/tennessee-republicans-pass-map-erasing-majority-black-district\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tennessee Republicans Pass Map Erasing Majority-Black District\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}