The substance of a costly, disruptive push to redraw SC’s voting lines

By: Lynn Teague

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: May 11, 2026

Words: 735

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Removing the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds was important. It was a powerful symbol of a long history of racial injustice.

Now we are faced with an issue that is even more important — not symbol but substance. Voting rights are the substance, the core of racial justice, that people have lived and died for.

No one is threatening to keep Black people from the polls now. That era is indeed over. But there is …

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