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How would this work in deeply red or blue states? If you redraw the districts in California to put all the red voters together, that district will be competitiv
by dahfizz 5y ago
How would this work in deeply red or blue states? If you redraw the districts in California to put all the red voters together, that district will be competitive, but you have gerrymandered all the other districts to be blue forever.
I think districts should represent sections of the geographic population. Its fine for a district to be uncompetetive if the general population in that region have a strong lean one way or the other.
- xenophonf 5y agoIn practice, it means establishing non-partisan redistricting commissions, taking that power away from the legislature or the political parties: https://www.nonprofitvote.org/nonpartisan-redistricting-citizens-not-legislators-in-charge/ https://www.nonprofitvote.org/nonpartisan-redistricting-citi...
- baldeagle 5y agoThis is a good response. I think California already does things like this, by having a non-partisan redistricting process. Texas, on the other hand, could barely more embrace parternship.
- kodah 5y agoI doubt California does this well. My experience in California is that if you look at voting trends you'd think areas like SF are deeply blue, probably borderline far left. If you come out here though, it's really not that way. Then again, a comparison like the one you gave is bound to fail even the smallest smell test. The outcome is similar in that votes don't really reflect what the population wants, but for different reasons.
- dahfizz 5y agoIts not clear to me that a nonpartisan redistricting would automatically make districts more competitive, nor that the increased competitiveness would be the reason nonpartisan districts are better. That was OP's point.