The county has exploded with growth in recent decades and now, for the first time, it's the dominate population base of a U.S. congressional district.
For the first time ever, Baldwin County is the predominate population base among counties in an Alabama congressional district following the court-orderedHow redistricting recreated a radical rightward shift for a South Alabama congressional districtUnder the new maps, Baldwin County’s voting-age population of 182,471 represents close to one-third of the 1st District’s overall voting age population of 557,336. It isgive Black voters a better opportunity of having representation in the U.S House.
Said Patrick McWilliams, the chairman of the Baldwin County GOP, “It’s the population epicenter and it will only grow.”A good portion of Mobile and Baldwin County are split into separate congressional districts for the first time in 40 years, when Baldwin County’s population was less than 60,000 residents. The county is now home to a whopping 231,767 residents.
Alabama State Senator Chris Elliott, R-Josephine, speaks during a celebration of a construction project for a second Airbus A320 final assembly line and continued site expansion on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, near the Airbus U.S. manufacturing facility in Mobile, Ala. Airbus plans to have the final assembly line project completed by mid-2025. .
“I think Carl will be the congressman as long as he wants to be, but the likelihood that you see a Baldwin County emerging in the future, post-Jerry, is probably pretty good,” Elliott said.Politically, the new 1st district has the makings to be one the reddest in the country. Under the new map – which excludes the City of Mobile but captures the rural and heavily conservative Wiregrass counties north of the Florida Panhandle – the district is now a +28 advantage for Republicans, tied for the six-most Republican district in the U.S. House.
She said with a population older than the state’s average, demands will continue to rise for healthcare and other services. She also pointed to a recent study that showed management occupations, sales and office jobs dominating the county’s industry. “I’m business friendly, but that won’t be at the expense at what I think my constituents’ key goals and desires are,” Elliott said. “We don’t have the big business interests that Mobile has … we don’t have Airbus and Austal. Most are the smaller to medium size business interests who tend to be very, very conservative in their politics.
Saliba said the distance of Dothan to Mobile County does not concern him, noting that the city has been in congressional districts with larger cities and counties before – namely Montgomery. Said Flowers, “If you had a choice of fixing or widening a road in Dothan, what will you fix? That is where the Wiregrass gets the short end of the stick.”
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