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What are some examples of well drawn congressional maps?
Good (left)
Bad (right).
Wow what an amazing graphic, I fully understand the issue with one picture.
It's a classic infographic which has been floating around the internet for a long time. Hopefully you're not trolling and did learn something - because more people need to understand the concept.
Because otherwise you end up with districts like this one in Texas which purposely segments the community to alter the votes in one's favor:
Texas 2nd district
Fun fact about Gerrymandering, it was named after former Massachusetts governor and founding father Elbridge Gerry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
You might appreciate the Ugly Gerry font.
Every letter of the alphabet represented by an actual gerrymandered districts outline!
https://leoburnett.com/work/ugly-gerry
Oh holy hell, hope never seen that before - absolutely insane
I like this graphic but I wish it didn't use red and blue. I feel like this would be more effective in showing republicans how bad districting hurts everyone if it was green and yellow or orange and purple.
I agree. However, I think most republicans completely understand the implications of political gerrymandering, and embrace it with enthusiastically open arms.
Both bad. A good one has 3 districts going blue, 2 red. Just because something looks clean on a map doesn't mean good. See video as to why.
You're not wrong but in the example the "good" one at least respects the majority. That's the point of the illustration, that a minority can be a majority with bad gerrymandering, and I think the image illustrates that just fine.
The "Blue Wins" District Map is objectively worse than the "Red Wins" Distract Map as it has no politically opposed Districts, effectively silencing 40% of the Precincts. The "Red Wins" Distract Map is certainly skewed but is superior because it doesn't silence its opposition.
In short what that picture is calling "Good" represents the same dissent silencing behavior that people are rightly mad at Conservatives about. "Fair Representation", as presented in the article, looks a lot more like "Red Wins" and almost nothing like "Blue Wins".
You're objectively stupid.
These may be enjoyable to peruse. Michigan has good maps. Colorado. Just tick Congressional, Sort by state, Final Maps then scroll down and look for graded ones.
https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistricting-report-card
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/