The Louisiana state legislature has passed a new map that is likely to flip a Democrat seat to the GOP in the upcoming midterm elections. The map carves up a Democrat-controlled district in an effort to help maintain the slim GOP majority in the House of Representatives.  

“I am confident that we have enacted a map that treats each region of the state fairly and that will likely put another Republican back in Congress as well as one which will easily pass constitutional muster,” said the map author Sen. Jay Morris in an interview with reporters, per the Shreveport Times. 

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