I am for having a computer draw up the Districts. And no, it wouldn’t infringe on ‘minority rights to be represented’ as minorities tend to live in areas surrounded by people like themselves. A computer drawing up the right number of Districts per state, with as close to population parity, is the only fair way to do it.
Then the programmers of the computers would be blamed for bias when drawing up the districts. That would not be a solution.
The Migrant Compassion scam, which just coincidentally is favored by the US Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, operating since Clinton 42, could be called Demographic Gerrymandering.
It wouldn’t work that way. At best you’d get guaranteed democrat/minority districts carved out for racial fairness, then the rest split “mathematically”. Add those together and you get Dem control in most states,
“as minorities tend to live in areas surrounded by people like themselves.”
Not as consistently as you might think. Some of the really screwy looking districts come from using demographic data to make a district that is composed predominantly of a minority group but from opposite sides of a metro area. All of this is part of dividing us up into racial factions with each faction having representatives. Better to ignore race/ethnicity entirely and make districts that are close in population and relatively consistent in height to width ratio, with only geographic and state lines creating large deviations from the typical ratio. On top of that we need 3-4x as many reps in congress so they actually have some contact with and answer to the community they represent instead of the lobbyists and power players.
We need a lot more Representatives ... 435 people representing almost 325M is ridiculous. 4350 would be a far better number. Good luck to the uniparty stranglehold if they’d choose to buy that many seats :-).
Of course, should the House grow, the exotic salaries and pensions Representatives get wouldn’t be part of the equation anymore. I’d be nice and grandfather in existing members ... they’d more than likely leave when they see their power diluted by 1000.
Moreover, you’d have to have convictions to work in a madhouse like that (and it was designed to be that way) for any appreciable period of time.
Do that and the whole Dem/Repub paradigm falls apart. That would make the Senate easier to fix.