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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGerrymandering
After widespread gerrymandering in 2010 maybe this strategy will bite repubs in the ass?
So there is all this talk about repubs having to reach out to minorities and expand their appeal. However, due to gerrymandering they made sure that their districts were concentrated with white people. So prior to the next census in 2020, where is the incentive at the house level for republicans to 'reach out'?
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Gerrymandering (Original Post)
juba
Nov 2012
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NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)1. Right now I feel hopeless about the gerrymandering in my state.
Locally, I feel there is no democracy, other than in my city. I don't know what the answer is.
catrose
(5,068 posts)2. ditto in Texas n/t
sunwyn
(494 posts)3. and Ohio
Caroline-Vivienne
(117 posts)4. It will never change.
It is as old as the nation itself.
Eventually though, the tide will turn.