Republican Brent Taylor flipped Tennessee’s new 9th Congressional District Tuesday, Nov. 3, delivering the party the win it sought through a swift redistricting effort that diluted the state’s lone Democratic stronghold by carving majority-Black Memphis into thirds.

Tennessee state Senator Brent Taylor’s adolescence must have run a bit longer than the rest of humanity’s. Taylor is the Republican nominee for the Volunteer State’s 9th congressional district and has been endorsed by Donald Trump. He is simultaneously running for reelection in the Tennessee state Senate, hoping to…