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Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by jypepin on Thursday August 01, 2019 @12:55PM (#20585776)
Thanks for clarifying! Was not aware of the practice and didn't even notice the states represented the alphabet! (Non US resident here).
Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by schoen on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:20PM (#20586076)
Note that these are Congressional districts (a sub-state district used for electoral purposes). The states' shapes themselves exist for other historical reasons that are probably not mainly related to gerrymandering.