{"id":625092,"date":"2026-05-05T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625092\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:05:09","slug":"only-one-quarter-of-americans-support-letting-states-draw-districts-to-help-minority-candidates-get-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625092\/","title":{"rendered":"Only one-quarter of Americans support letting states draw districts to help minority candidates get elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"ajt2w\">Only 25% of Americans say states should be allowed to draw congressional districts in a way that helps minority candidates get elected, while 43% say they shouldn&#8217;t. Democrats are more likely than not to say states should be allowed to do this (50% say yes and 24% say no), but Independents are more likely to say no (19% vs. 39%) and Republicans overwhelmingly say no (9% vs. 66%). Black Americans are more likely to support this practice (47% vs. 28%) than are white Americans (20% vs. 47%).<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"l0m3\">A majority of Americans who say most white voters are willing to cast ballots for Black candidates oppose allowing states to draw minority-friendly districts (18% support and 59% oppose), while those who disagree about white voters are more likely to support than oppose allowing these districts (42% vs. 35%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only 25% of Americans say states should be allowed to draw congressional districts in a way that helps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-625092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}