Re:The Map That Popularized the Word ‘Gerrymander’
by siidooloo on Sunday July 02, 2017 @01:30PM
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Actually, if it weren't for gerrymandering these districts would probably be more politically homogenous. The point of the gerrymandering is to split up a district that would have had a majority of some party. Now instead of having a majority in one district, they have a minority in several districts.
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Re:The Map That Popularized the Word ‘Gerrymander’
by al452 on Sunday July 02, 2017 @01:36PM
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Not quite... the real point of gerrymandering is to concentrate your political opponents' support, so that they have a small number of large majorities, and to spread out your own, so that you have a large number of small majorities. This will presumably tend to make some areas more homogeneous and some less.