While the newly elected minority legislators are highly vocal advocates, there is scant evidence of their being able to advance issues of concern to their minority constituents. On the other hand, there has been an increase in the number of legislators perceived as hostile or indifferent to minority interest and their opposition has become more intense. It is hard to see how minority interest is advanced by this state of affairs. Another effect of MBLDs is the destruction of the two party system in the south. Before redistricting, which created two new majority-black districts in Georgia, the state's House delegation had only one Republican.
Today there are eight.
In fact, it was the strategy of President George Bush's Justice Department to use the redistricting after the 1990 census to increase the GOP's political fortunes by creating House districts with a majority of minority voters. MBLDs has placed black voters into enclaves that white politicians can, and do, ignore with impunity. Conclusion MBLDs have given minorities token representation in legislatures, but at the expense of larger minority interests. Newly elected minority legislators are isolated from other members of their delegations. Newly elected minority legislators are more isolated from their white minority constituents than were their white predecessors from their minority constituents.