Gerrymander much - or, how can it be more obvious?!1 (in Texas, natch.) A tale of 2 maps.

[UTUSN]

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Multiple choice (or one choice, up/down, true/false, yes/no) : One of these districts would seem to be more compact, more homogeneous in terms of population, much easier to campaign through. Both were designed by the Repuke legislative majority. The other one has a root in a Democratic stronghold but traverses *distant* (read, "Repuke" ) territories, lessening the chance of a "pure" Democrat winning, having to appeal to at least partly (read, "Blue Dog" ) Repuke voters. Which, oh, which is which?!1 You get five guesses.

Oh, the Repuke district belongs to an a-hole TeaBagger named BURGESS, who recently appeared on MSNBC and motor-mouthed his way with SHITLER talking points, talking over and down on the host, claiming that the wall is needed despite that immigrants can "MELT" through.





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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Ranking-Texas-most-gerrymandered-districts-13024898.php#photo-14323862
Ranking Texas' most gerrymandered districts
.... Unlike the years of litigations and appeals might have one think, figuring out whether a district is gerrymandered is pretty simple.

For example, it's worth looking back at a 2015 study that found "squiggly" districts, or districts with boundaries all over the place, are mathematically more likely to be gerrymandered. ....

In Texas, the data shows that because of such gerrymandering, Republicans receive two extra seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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[mwooldri]

1. NC:. Hold my beer...

This map was ruled unconstitutional. District 12 was known as the I-85 district as it went from Charlotte in the south all the way up to Greensboro and as far as Durham at one point... following the path of Interstate 85. Some widths of District 12 was no wider than the Interstate itself.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. that's goofier than the old PA map

District 2 looks like a tadpole with a damaged tail.

[dsc]

3. while shape matters some

one can gerrymander with compact districts. Below is NC current map, notice that it is pretty compact.

[mwooldri]

5. Yup... All Democrats in urban districts.

Republicans are in drawn rural districts. NC is still gerrymandered.

[dsc]

6. actually they were even more devious

In Asheville they broke up the city into two districts. They also cracked Greensboro and Winston Salem.

[JCMach1]

4. It's the software, 20 years ago the software could draw a majority either party district shaped like

Mickey Mouse in Central Florida... Actually saw the presentation on this by the company... Laws need to add that districts need to maintain overall representation of parties as much as possible, THEN compactness as programming parameters... Of course, that will never happen as ALL districts would be SWING.

[Baltimike]

7. But they are NOT switching votes. Don't you dare even THINK that they did, or even would