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  2. Gerrymandering in the United States - Wikipedia

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    "Negative racial gerrymandering" refers to a process in which district lines are drawn to prevent racial minorities from electing their preferred candidates. [57]: 26 Between the Reconstruction Era and mid-20th century, white Southern Democrats effectively controlled redistricting throughout the Southern United States. In areas where some ...

  3. How much will gerrymandering actually affect the 2024 election?

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    Gerrymandering was pivotal in determining the outcome of elections across that decade starting in 2012. That’s true now at the state-by-state level – [but] at the national level, that’s no ...

  4. Here's a quick wrap-up of how recently passed redistricting in North Carolina will affect Asheville and other parts of Western N.C. Redistricting rundown: How new maps and gerrymandering will ...

  5. Gerrymandering - Wikipedia

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    The term gerrymandering is a portmanteau of a salamander and Elbridge Gerry, [a] [5] Vice President of the United States at the time of his death, who, as governor of Massachusetts in 1812, signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a mythological salamander. The term has negative ...

  6. United States Congress and citizens - Wikipedia

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    Some political scientists speculate there is a coattail effect when a popular president or party position has the effect of reelecting incumbents who get dragged along to victory as if they were "riding on the president's coattails", although there is some evidence that the coattail effect is irregular and possibly has been declining since the ...

  7. Ohio Issue 1: What is gerrymandering? How does it impact ...

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    Ohioans don't like gerrymandering, which is why both sides of the Issue 1 debate say they have a solution for it.

  8. Rucho v. Common Cause - Wikipedia

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    Rucho v. Common Cause, No. 18-422, 588 U.S. 684 (2019) is a landmark case of the United States Supreme Court concerning partisan gerrymandering. [1] The Court ruled that while partisan gerrymandering may be "incompatible with democratic principles", the federal courts cannot review such allegations, as they present nonjusticiable political questions outside the jurisdiction of these courts.

  9. Column: Gerrymandering still exists in California. But ...

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    The old gerrymandering had a very bad stench and is still practiced in many states including Texas, columnist George Skelton writes. Column: Gerrymandering still exists in California. But reforms ...