Is there an argument for drawing lines on basis of race?

@Sleepyguy said
Both parties are going all in on gerrymandering this year.

As long as there is a high correlation between race and political affiliation (blacks vote 90% for Dems), it will always be possible for Democrats to characterize permissible partisan gerrymandering as racist. Now they'll have to show that such redistricting intentionally suppresses minority voting power based o ...[text shortened]... n the present, and not just assume racism by pointing at historical conditions that no longer exist.

No, they're given the impossible task of proving a gerrymeander isn't, even in part, for supposedly valid political purposes.

IF the State of Tennessee had, in 1965, chopped up the city of Memphis into several districts combining it with predominantly white districts to assure Blacks were in the minority in all of the districts, no court in the land would have failed to find a VRA violation impermissable pursuant to the remedial powers given Congress under the 15th Amendment. Neither the VRA or the Constitution have changed in any manner that makes the same State action permissible now.