The Secretary of State candidate says he believes race-based districts are unconstitutional, adding that “racially polarized voting” protects political power such as in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District.

A Mississippi candidate for Secretary of State says race should not be a motivating factor in drawing electoral districts.

Shuwaski Young, a Democrat-turned-Republican, issued the statement Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case out of Louisiana that could upend how predominantly Southern states draw their electoral districts.

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Young said Mississippians are no longer living through the realities of the 1960s, which gave way to the 1965 Voting

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