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Gerrymandering For Dummies
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:11 pm
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:11 pm
WAPO
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Finally, what if the Red Party controls the state government? The Reds know they're at a numeric disadvantage. But with some creative boundary drawing -- the type you see in grid 3, "neither compact nor fair" -- they can slice the Blue population up such that they only get a majority in two districts. So despite making up 40 percent of the population, the Reds win 60 percent of the seats. Not bad!
In the real world, this is similar to what we see in Pennsylvania. In 2012, Democrats won 51 percent of the popular House vote. But the only won 5 out of 18 House seats -- fewer than one third. This was because when Pennsylvania Republicans redrew the state's Congressional districts, they made highly irregular districts that look like the one below, PA-7, one of the most geographically irregular districts in the nation.
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Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:12 pm to Ebbandflow
Quit consolidating in cities and amend the majority minority requirements of the vra. Until then pound sand democrats
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:13 pm to Ebbandflow
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The Reds
The irony is too much, liberals calling republicans reds....
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:13 pm to Ebbandflow
Or you could look at how black Democrats screw their own party by demanding majority-minority districts in Southern states, thereby making adjacent districts solidly Republican.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:14 pm to Turbeauxdog
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Quit consolidating in cities and amend the majority minority requirements of the vra. Until then pound sand democrats
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:14 pm to Turbeauxdog
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the vra
This is the No. 1 culprit.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:15 pm to Ebbandflow
Muh popular vote
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:15 pm to Ebbandflow
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Gerrymandering For Dummies
Sorry. I personally know Gerry Mander, and he is no dummy. What is your gripe with him??
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:17 pm to Ebbandflow
It’s telling that you people only care about gerrymandering when it helps republicans, yet it was hardly an issue between 1932-1994 when democrats held the house
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:17 pm to Ebbandflow
538 article, called "Hating gerrymandering is easy, fixing it is harder." I suggest you read it and educate yourself because it's not nearly as simple or malicious as your article makes it out to be.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:20 pm to Ebbandflow
No, that's overall not true. I went through two Gerrymanderings when I was in Politics and the Senate. In every case, it started as a move to create a Black District for a Black leader of the time. When they created 2 Black districts, it also left White Districts. That is the way Congress is now.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:20 pm to Ebbandflow
Blame Republicans for gerrymandering in the Midwest if you want.
But the real source of gerrymandering is in the south and it’s 100% attributable to “minority majority districts”.
Districts are carved out so specifically to include minority neighborhoods, so as to give a black person a seat in the House..... that every surrounding district in the state is automatically blood-Red purely because the Democratic Party holds the racist belief that black people cannot be represented by a person of another skin color
But the real source of gerrymandering is in the south and it’s 100% attributable to “minority majority districts”.
Districts are carved out so specifically to include minority neighborhoods, so as to give a black person a seat in the House..... that every surrounding district in the state is automatically blood-Red purely because the Democratic Party holds the racist belief that black people cannot be represented by a person of another skin color
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:21 pm to Ebbandflow
This is the one he is referring to:
Looks kinda like this one :
(Sheila Jackson Lee's district.)
Looks kinda like this one :
(Sheila Jackson Lee's district.)
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:21 pm to Ebbandflow
Who represents that weird looking district 2.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:23 pm to Ebbandflow
Well, bitch, you know what they say... "You live by the sword, you die by the sword."
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:23 pm to OldTigahFot
Why did those solid grey areas penetrate the red areas and split them up??
Why did they do that??
Why did they do that??
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:25 pm to Ebbandflow
Hey dipshit, tell us again how the caravan will"never reach the border".
You expect anybody to listen to any of the rest of your cut and paste horse shite?
You expect anybody to listen to any of the rest of your cut and paste horse shite?
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:27 pm to OldTigahFot
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Sheila Jackson Lee's district.)
Precisely. Check out Cedric Richmond’s district in Louisiana.
The unfortunate side of all this is that gerrymandering doesn’t benefit any particular party. Given that we change district lines every 10 years, things fluctuate enough politically and demographically in this country so that one party hasn’t seen a marked advantage electorally.
The result is bad for everyone. Ideologically and politically homogenous districts push everyone to the fringes, and moderates get either primaried or massacred in a general. This past midterm was a perfect example of that.
This past cycle, Republicans benefited from their gerrymandering after the 2010 Census. There’s no doubt in that.
But this isn’t new. With a couple exceptions, prior to 2010 Democrats largely controlled Congress and state legislatures for 8 consecutive decades. Gerrymandering is as American as apple pie, and the left is no less guilty than the right.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:39 pm to Ebbandflow
I'm guessing you're not familiar with Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, huh?
Posted on 11/15/18 at 8:45 pm to Ebbandflow
Gerrymandering became popular after the civil right act, and it favored Democrats.
Stop whining.
You people had no complaints when it worked in your favor
Stop whining.
You people had no complaints when it worked in your favor
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