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The Littoral Combat Ship USS Manchester is seen at Austal Inc.'s Mobile shipyard on Nov. 4, 2016. The shipyard and much of downtown Mobile are now separated into two different congressional districts. The Austal USA manufacturing facility will continue building warships within Alabama’s 1st congressional district, but the company’s visitor’s center is now in Alabama’s 2nd congressional district.
“Politically, what it does, is enhances a Mobile candidate in that 2nd district,” said Steve Flowers, a longtime state political commentator and former Republican member of the Alabama State House of Representatives. State Rep. Sam Jones, D-Mobile, said the new map makes Mobile a factor in the Democratic primary for the 2nd district, where Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed has been considered a strong contender for the seat. In Mobile County, Democratic state Senator Vivian Figures and Rep. Napoleon Bracy of Prichard have both expressed interest in running.
“It bizarrely divides Mobile -- both county and city -- by acting as if Black Mobilians have more common interests with residents of Eufaula than with the neighbors in Mobile,” Hillyer said in a statement to.
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