2000-2013
2013-Present (still gerrymandered) 
Posted on 08/24/2025 9:59:21 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
The Democrats’ hackneyed falsehood that Republican gerrymandering in Texas is racist and will end American democracy is not only hysterical – it’s hypocritical. While gerrymandering is ethically impaired, it has been part of U.S. politics for more than 200 years, and a mainstay of Democratic Party ......
According to Article I, “[t]he Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations….”
The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment provides that “[n]o State shall make or enforce any law which shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, and the 15th Amendment guarantees that “[t]he right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
The VRA authorizes the federal government and private citizens to challenge voting qualifications or practices that deny or abridge the right to vote based on race, color, or language. A 1982 amendment made clear that a discriminatory effect violates the VRA, regardless of purpose, but also clarifies there is no guarantee of a proportional outcome.
After years of uncertainty, the Supreme Court last year held in Rucho v. Common Cause that while partisan gerrymandering may be “incompatible with democratic principles,” it is a “political question” that is beyond the authority of federal courts to decide. As a result, states are now free to reduce Democrat or Republican representation in Congress, so long as they comply with basic rules of “one person, one vote,” and the districts are geographically compact, contiguous, and respect political boundaries, such as county lines.
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The gerrymander owes it heritage to Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry. In 1812, he signed off on a new state senate district so bizarrely shaped that his opponents said it looked like a salamander. A local newspaper cartoonist combined the two, and the “Gerry-mander” was born.
The very folks that demand we look at people as simply people, do their best to always view people by skin or sex, and balkanize and demographically group people for their own benefits.
2000-2013
2013-Present (still gerrymandered)
There was never a constitutional time for them.
We had a black female democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives here in Florida from 1993 to 2017. Corrine Brown, you may have heard of her.
Her district ran through black neighborhoods from Jacksonville to Gainesville, Orlando, Ocala, and Lake City.
It really was ludicrous how gerrymandered it was. Eventually
a court-ordered redistricting corrected that mess.
In July 2016, she and her chief of staff were indicted on charges of participating in conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, multiple counts of mail and wire fraud, concealing material facts on required financial disclosure forms, theft of government property, obstruction of the Internal Revenue Service laws, and filing false tax returns.
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Typical true democrat to the end.
It was never a good idea to begin with, just empty-headed, spineless, emotionally-driven ‘conservatives’ that fell all over themselves to help the demo-commies advance the ‘balkanization’ of America’x great melting pot, because the idea was packaged to play on their emotions, and they didn’t stop to think.
where’s_the_Outrage? posted: The “gerrymander” owes it heritage to Mass Gov. Elbridge Gerry. In 1812, he signed off on a new state senate district so bizarrely shaped that his opponents said it looked like a salamander. A local newspaper cartoonist combined the two, and the “Gerry-mander” was born.
Although Republicans gain somewhat more than 40 percent of the vote in New England states, there is no Republican representation in Congress. Gerrymandering anyone?
I think AI can take a state, count its population, and divide it geographically into equally proportionate congressional districts. That was the work of one person, a pencil, and a yellow pad, fifty years ago. If AI does it, nobody can blame anyone to be the villain or the victim.
Time To End Mandated ‘Majority-Minority’ Congressional Districts.
Indeed it’s a free pass for rigging elections democrats know that tool very well.
Obama/Biden.....................................................
Secure our elections and gerrymandering will cease to be an issue.
Thanks, A great post!
More people need to know how racist and unconstitutional the Voting Rights Act has been used to give race preferences in voting to Southern states that the Fed government can’t do in all the other states.
They both went to prison....although not near as long as they ought to had as far as I’m concerned.
All district lines in every state need to be erased. Then we start over. Given the total population of the state, calculate the number of districts and draw the district lines in rectangular patterns. Grid lines should always run either east/west or north/south, no exceptions. Count the number of people in each grid and adjust the sides so that there are equal numbers in each grid. DO NOT alter the rectangular shape. Pay no attention to racial or ethnic makeup of each district, lines should be adjusted solely by population count.
Like I said, it'll never happen. It's too easy and too fair...
Right. I’d heard the backstory of the term on Newsmax a few weeks ago. Interesting ...
it is time to return to a less number for representation, and have a larger congress paid for by the state legislatures. house them in a new facility in lincoln nebraska.
“it is time to return to a less number for representation, and have a larger congress.”
I agree. Triple the House districts from 435 to 1305. It’d be a much more representative body.
much more minority representation too
I agree, except I’d allow up to 6 sides, with natural boundaries such as rivers, coastlines, etc. counting as 1 side. State lines count as a side as well.
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