Congressman Jerry Carl says he knows voters in the Wiregrass area, newly drawn into the congressional district he’s represented since 2021, don’t love the idea of being represented by someone from Mobile.

“And I don’t blame them,” Carl said. “They’re used to having someone from the Wiregrass, in the Wiregrass and they’ve been stripped of that.”

In the court-mandated congressional map changes, Carl's District 1 was stretched from the southwest corner of the state across the lower counties to the Georgia line. Similarly, District 2, which formerly included all of the Wiregrass region, now goes west and dips into Mobile.

Carl, a former Mobile County Commission member, is losing much of the city of Mobile and Prichard from his district.

“It is what it is at the end of the day and we have to work with it,” Carl said. “The people realize that and have been very nice about it.”

The change now pits Carl against his GOP colleague and fellow two-term House member, Barry Moore of Enterprise.