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But that's not gerrymandering. It's a different thing. Gerrymandering is specifically the process of drawing otherwise unthinkable district boundaries to achiev
by aptwebapps 9y ago
But that's not gerrymandering. It's a different thing. Gerrymandering is specifically the process of drawing otherwise unthinkable district boundaries to achieve some particular electoral result.
- CalChris 9y agoWyoming became a state on July 10, 1890. It then had a population of 62,555 and now has 563,626 [1]. The population of the US in 1890 was 62,979,766 and is now 321.4 million. So with Wyoming's 0.1% population of the US then and its 0.17% now, is that a thinkable process or is it gerrymandering? [1] http://eadiv.state.wy.us/demog_data/cntycity_hist.htm http://eadiv.state.wy.us/demog_data/cntycity_hist.htm
- aptwebapps 9y agoI think maybe you're operating at a higher level of abstraction than I am. Electoral distortions like the allocation of two Senate seats per state regardless of population share, or failure to keep representation inline with original intentions are definitely things to carp about. They might even have a similar effect as gerrymandering in some cases. But unless you're redrawing borders for purely electoral reasons you're not gerrymandering. Is this really debatable? Are we actually arguing about something that can be settled by referencing a dictionary?
- CalChris 9y agoIf you are adding another state then you are redrawing borders.