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[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 99 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
[-] pm_me_your_thoughts@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 17 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah but it doesn’t so…

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