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Re:The Map That Popularized the Word ‘Gerrymander’ by al452 on Sunday July 02, 2017 @01:36PM (#14683449)
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.
Re:The Map That Popularized the Word ‘Gerrymander’ by mhuffman on Sunday July 02, 2017 @02:11PM (#14683623)
It's both! One's called "cracking" and the other is called "packing".