A GOP legislature? In Alabama?

Democrats cannot be happy to see words like these making their way into print just before an election:

The last time Republicans controlled a statehouse chamber in Alabama, Ulysses S. Grant was president and Thomas Edison still hadn’t perfected electric lighting.

If Republicans seize legislative chambers in states like Alabama and North Carolina, Democrats will control the decennial redistricting process in very, very few states indeed.

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