re: Gerrymandering is anti democratic BS no matter who is doing it

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You're right . Rs should just roll over and let the Dems continue to rout the Rs out of every blue state. Let's do nothing and see how that works out in another 10 years

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Correct. The whole principled, just want to be left alone conservative better learn to play dirty or they will continue to get trounced by those who will use power to get the desired results.

Win by any means necessary.

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Uhhhmmmm.... they both already do it. California is just threatening to make it even worse. I think I read that 40% of California voted for Trump and yet Republicans only have 17% of California’s congressional districts. It’s even worse for New York. Maryland is a complete fricking joke.

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This actually isn’t that bad. A common rule of thumb political scientists use when evaluating gerrymandering is that the majority party should receive roughly double its margin of victory in legislative seats. So if a party wins a state 60–40%, that’s a 20-point margin — and they should expect to win about 80% of the seats.

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If Texas does this and then California and NY counter, wtf has anyone gained but less competitive districts so less accountability.

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So Republicans should just roll over and take it.

CA is already 42-9, how much more can they do?

You didn't bitch when Illinois did it - why is that?

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I hate when you guys do this BS. You know damn well that both sides abuse the piss out of this. This factually isn't just a democrat issue.

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once again, dummy, it's only the Democrats who flood the country with illegal immigrants and thus run game on the census


I'm not going to apologize to you for me being correct on this entire point. You should apologize to yourself for bad reading comprehension.

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If you have a square area and divide it up into 4 equal quadrants and get 4 republican majority districts, or divide it into 4 equal vertical strips and get 2 dem and 2 republican, then which is the correct districting in your opinion?

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You won’t, because people don’t live in neat little blocks or grids along political lines. They live in clumps and fingers, like the weird gerrymandered districts illustrate, and more often along demographic divisions than strict political divisions.

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Democrats have fought for it and republicans haven't until now.

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It doesn't matter. An activist judge will reverse it, be it on the state or federal level.

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I hate when you guys do this BS. You know damn well that both sides abuse the piss out of this. This factually isn't just a democrat issue.

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But the disaster that Democrats create when they gain power absolutely is 1 sided. This isn't the 1980s, where it really didnt' matter who was in control, because both sides wanted what was best for America and it's principles. The left want full out marxism. They don't hide from it. I'm not going to get high and mighty when my kids futures are on the line. Because if you get your way, and in 30 years, the Republicans play fairly, but the democrats have redistricted every state and have total control, and you are forced into government housing, government grocery stores, government run everything, and America is no more, will you pat yourself on the back and say, "well at least i did what was right" while your child starves to death?

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These strategies were used to prevent black southerners from having a fair shot at voting or electing a representative who would promote their causes

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Your professor was a psychic. You should’ve asked him for lottery numbers. Maybe 1 out of 10 blacks voted into office have not been a criminal who does nothing but enrich themselves.

TX is actually Un-gerrymandering! So you approve?