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Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, brought the issue to Parliament as an urgent question, warning "the seriousness of the term terrorism risks losing its meaning, becoming diluted rather than strengthened".

The health secretary said such laws had put "more expectation on police" and "diluted the focus and priorities of the public", adding "that's obviously something we need to look at".

Some conservative and rural areas would be shifted into districts where Republican voters would be diluted by high voter registration advantage for Democrats.

The map was immediately panned as racist and illegal by Democrats, who have been raising the alarm about the prospect of voters of color being diluted.

Over the years, steps by various federal governments to promote Hindi have fuelled fears within non-Hindi speaking states that the local culture will be diluted.