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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
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« on: January 08, 2012, 11:11:58 PM »

How have we not move past the point of being obligated to make special segregated districts for minorities? If it happens naturally, as is the case with my home district of TN-9 or on the South Side of Chicago, great. But drawing a montrosity like NC-12 or FL-3, just so blacks can have "their" district is highly offensive to me. It's also totally screws the Dems by packing so many of our voters into one district. It doesn't make any sense.

And that is the main reason they are drawn.

But it kind of balances out such as in how we are now at least guaranteed one seat in Alabama and Louisiana for instance.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
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Posts: 113,059
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

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« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2012, 12:22:11 PM »

You do realize this practice didn't really begin widespread until the redistricting cycle of the 90s, and thus about three decades after the passage of the VRA?
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