As the current representative of Tennessee's 9th District, Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen has established himself as a tactful candidate with goals in mind to help improve the lives of his constituents through his representative style and home. -style.Theory I: Redistricting, Gerrymandering, and Candidate EmergenceA congressional district is an electoral division of a state, electing and having the right to send a member to the United States House of Representatives. Districting is the district initially defined, while redistricting is the process of drawing district boundaries after the decennial census and new population changes. Redistricting is a political process that affects the fate of outgoing House members, state legislators, governors, lobbyists, leaders of racial and ethnic groups, and congressional leaders, due to its impact on state legislatures. States. The state legislature determines which party dominates its congressional delegation and which party gains majority control of the House itself. For this reason, redistricting is a tool typically used by politicians to seek personal, partisan, and factional advantage.Davidson et al. state that redistricting is generally a state responsibility carried out by the legislature with hindering assistance from federal courts throughout the process. The congressional district is governed by two federal laws. The first is the 1967 statute that requires the 50 states entitled to one or more seats to create districts each represented by a single member. The second is the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which requires that districts not dilute the representation of racial minorities. In addition to these statues, the Supreme Court crafted the Constitution to require districts to... middle of paper ......n In Memphis, I think the racial diversity demonstrated within my key staff has helped d 'somehow' Before Congressman Cohen, Congressman Ford, senior and junior, represented the Ninth District until 2006. Would changing race reduce voter turnout rates in elections? The voter turnout rates of African-American representatives compared to Cohen's show slight marginal differences. In presidential election years, Ford's men were elected at high rates, while, as in the midterm elections, voters re-elected representatives, but with lower turnout rates. Similarly, Cohen maintained and in some cases exceeded the previous turnout rates of Ford Sr. and Jr. In 2008, Steve Cohen and Jake Ford, the son of Harold Ford Sr., ran for the House, Cohen received 198,798 votes out of a total of 226,282 votes, defeating Jake Ford by a wide margin of 187,795 votes.