Steve Flowers: New Second Congressional District is race to watch

The most interesting race to watch this year in Alabama will be for the newly drawn Second Congressional District. The new seat was drawn by the federal courts to create a second majority minority district in Alabama. Currently, we have six Republicans and one Democrat representing Alabama in Washington. If a Democrat wins the seat, we will have five Republicans and two Democrats on the Potomac in 2025. The new seat includes all of Montgomery and extends through the Black Belt and gathers most of the black voters in Mobile. The race to fill the new open second congressional district is very cr