[Magdalen] Gerrymandering was Canada's election

[Jay Weigel]

Sibyl, if you don't think it's gerrymandering, you ain't seen
Virginia.....especially the Virginia 2nd. The whole thing has been ordered
redrawn.

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 10/19/15 9:02 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> My favorite for a long time has been Tobique-Mactaquac.
>>>
>>
>> Love it.
>>
>> I think our congressional districts are numbered to allow for
>> gerrymandering.
>>
>
> Scott, I don't think that it's so much gerrymandering as simple
> redistricting (which can be perverted to gerrymandering, making very
> interesting map mathematical geometrics).  But districts are supposed to
> have roughly equal population numbers, which in a state like Kansas, with
> two big cities, Wichita and Kansas City, and mostly rural land area, can be
> very interesting and problematic indeed.  And populations shift all the
> time.  The very odd shapes a district can get, to make a majority of one
> party, determined by demographics, in some favored congressperson's
> "district", probably very odd shapes in a place like the Chicago area which
> is notorious for that sort of political maneuver, is the Gerrymander (the
> label inspired by someone saying that the map of a district which had been
> redistricted to be safe for a congressperson named Gerry, looked like a
> salamander.)
>
>
> I mean, our 9th district here would have a name like
>> Evanston-Skokie-Edgewater-Uptown-Lake View-Lincolnwood-Des
>> Plaines-Mount Prospect-Arlington Heights. And the next redistricting
>> could change more than half of those localities. Can't even name it
>> "North Shore" because it reaches way west in a U shape and down a
>> narrow leg to pick up our part of Chicago in addition to the rather
>> posh but not ultra-posh North Shore burbs. So the neighborhood just
>> west of us is not in our district, but Arlington Heights, which takes
>> two hours to get to via public transport, is in our district.
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
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>