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[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 99 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this is a bad map. No data, no sourcing, no analysis, nothing. It’s just clickbaity nonsense. Those aren’t even counties it’s just cutting the country up into random squares cause lord knows how forked the map projection is.

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago

Those aren’t even counties it’s just cutting the country up into random squares

hey, if it works for voting

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago
[-] pm_me_your_thoughts@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

They're not even being subtle. What's their excuse?

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

It’s not always gerrymandering. See my response to @Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maryland's sixth used to be pretty hilarious too. They put an urban center connected to an Appalachian rural expanse with a little corridor to drown out the rural votes. It's a little less nonsensical nowadays though.

The third doesn't look like that anymore btw. It's a solid block now.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

No. 3 is actually the opposite of gerrymandering. That “headphone district” connects two Latino communities https://youtu.be/A-4dIImaodQ?t=833

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LOL how is Maryland gerrymandered, isn't it like 12 blocks?

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It used to be gerrymandered to fuck. It was only recently rectified.

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They were packing urban districts and cutting up rural districts to make safe seats. How the sixth and the eighth cut up Montgomery county to give it far flung rural districts was particularly funny. The first was a dedicated Republican seat so they purely packed the Eastern shore and other rural areas in it. Sixth used to be a Republican district before they packed urban Montgomery county into it. The sixth is competitive now that it doesn't have a big chunk of Rockville in it.

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it doesn’t so…

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