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Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by EForEndeavour on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:00PM (#20585843)
Only three letters in this project include California; only the letters T and X are represented exclusively by California. The statement is powerful and hilarious, not "lost."
Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by raldi on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:53PM (#20586433)
The T district doesn't even look problematic to me. Nor does the other California letter, X, which is made up of a combination of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_8th_congression...

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_14th_congressio...

...both of which seem like textbook examples of what a good, non-gerrymandered district should look like.

Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by thephyber on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:35PM (#20587451)
I think it was a dig at Texas, especially since the gp didn't mention the third CA letter.
Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by raldi on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:42PM (#20587519)
There isn't a third. There are two, T (made up of one district) and X (made of two).

If the point of this project was to call attention to ridiculously-shaped gerrymandered districts, these are some of the last districts that should ever be considered for inclusion.

Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by undersuit on Thursday August 01, 2019 @04:01PM (#20587721)
>these are some of the last districts that should ever be considered for inclusion.

Maybe there were, and the author had to use them for their relatively sane shapes compared to calling Maryland's 3rd District the X.

Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by raldi on Thursday August 01, 2019 @04:15PM (#20587876)
Be that as it may, it substantially undermines the premise of the work, which is presumably, "Gerrymandering is so rampant that you can make an entire alphabetic font out of gerrymandered districts".
Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by harimau777 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @07:13PM (#20589244)
I think that "Gerrymandering is so rampant that you can make 24 of the 26 letters out of gerrymandered districts" still demonstrates their point.
Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by raldi on Thursday August 01, 2019 @08:11PM (#20589598)
D, E, O, Q, T, X, Y, and half of Z all seem fine to me.
Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by nsxwolf on Thursday August 01, 2019 @04:24PM (#20587956)
Districts look idiosyncratic no matter how they are drawn, so I’m not sure this works as a statement. Perhaps if the font were updated over time to match the changes due to gerrymandering, the font would become less and less readable, and that would seemingly be some sort of statement.
Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by AlanSE on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:05PM (#20585900)
It's not even a very good T. Some letters are more impressive than others. Q is totally worthless for the political point.

But N, D, U, and a few others are real gems.

Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by furyofantares on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:15PM (#20586017)
I’m imagining this debate playing out in my head.

I’m not sure if gerrymandering is all that bad. Wait, what’s this, a font made out of gerrymandered districts? It must be really bad, we should do something about it. Except the T doesn’t look that great, and it’s from California anyway. Maybe this isn’t such a big deal after all. And the Q! The Q is barely even gerrymandered. Fuck it, I’m gonna go play some video games.

Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by aqme28 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:55PM (#20586447)
What's wrong with D? That looks like a pretty reasonable district. B is the worst one I think.
Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts by caf on Thursday August 01, 2019 @07:47PM (#20589461)
K and H are pretty egregious at first glance.