Cleo Fields

SCOTLANDVILLE, La. (AP) — If you cross the Mississippi River on the Huey P. Long-O.K. Allen Bridge, pass the Exxon Refinery, then head north for a few minutes, you'll find a pocket of Louisiana that's unlike any other place in America's never-ending battle over what it means to have equal representation.

Here is Scotlandville, which was once its own unincorporated town but is now part of Baton Rouge. It's a nearly all Black community of 10,000 people that has been, for the second time, shuffled around on the state's congressional map to make it part of a majority white district. Both times it was during the term of the same representative.

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