By Cameron Limes 

CHARLESTON S.C. (WCIV) — A proposed congressional redistricting plan aimed at reshaping South Carolina’s 6th District is on hold after its first hearing, as supporters argue it would give Republicans a better chance in the district. Critics say it is designed to dilute Black voting strength.

The bill would redraw district lines in a way sponsors say would give Republican voters in District Six a larger voice in elections. Rep. Jordan Pace, who introduced the map, said, “I think the state is overwhelmingly conservative.”

Lynn Teague of the League of Women Voters SC said the proposal shows “a very clear partisan intent” and described the approach as “a mechanism for doing that, which is, to reduce black voters in congressional district six.”

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