Manhattan Contrarian ping
I have seen it before, but on seeing it again, it reminded me of why it is such an absurdity, and why it was challenged:
It reminds me of "The Reasonable Man" perspective: What would a"Reasonable Man" think of this?
A "Reasonable Man" would immediately see it as an absurdity. We can be thankful that the Left completely gave their hand away in this one and drew the map as they did.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have been as apparent.
“If these are the kind of “black leaders” that (in the view of the New York Times) could be held back by the aftermath of the Callais decision, I can’t think of a much better result for America.”
Best line of the article after listing the grifters the VRA brought to Congress.
There should be a standard method applied nationwide that works well.
I’ve always lived in odd-shaped states: NY, MD, VA, FL, so I came up with this:
1. Compute the geographic center of a state.
2. Craft a district from the furthermost point in the state (not yet allocated) and work inward, gobbling up voting jurisdictions in a circular fashion inward until you have more than enough for a district.
3. exclude peripheral voting jurisdictions, and pairs of them, the numerically closest to the excess population first, that would help exceed the required district size.
4. Make up any shortfall by partially taking from the least populated adjacent voting jurisdiction(s).
5. Repeat 2,3,4 with allocated district(s) excluded.
Note that 3 is to minimize the number of distinct ballots that need to be created and 4 is to comply with the “one person, one vote” rule. Voting jurisdiction primarily means election administrative, but it can also mean political subdivision.
“which for decades helped usher in generations of Black leaders” which led to the rotting of American culture.
What it basically was is legalized DEI.