Right — and the reason that the US doesn’t have a formulaic solution to prevent that is due to intentional racial gerrymandering. They’ve chosen a different st

Right — and the reason that the US doesn’t have a formulaic solution to prevent that is due to intentional racial gerrymandering. They’ve chosen a different strategy, with different outcomes. That’s the sense in which mathematics can’t solve a political problem. US voting maps hinge on the “one drop” rule — where the government says anyone who is multi-racial counts as black but not their other races. > Based on that guidance, census responses from people who marked both the "Black" and "White" boxes should be counted with the Black population. And when focused on discrimination specifically against Black people, responses marking boxes for two or more minority races including "Black" should also be counted as Black. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/18/1126287827/redistricting-supreme-court-louisiana-black-african-american https://www.npr.org/2022/10/18/1126287827/redistricting-supr...